Love What You Wear: Mastering Your Style in Multiple Homes
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High stress career got you on the move?
Sick of spending thousands of dollars on clothing you never wear?
Tried and failed with personal shoppers at high end department stores?
Are you constantly wondering where your favorite sweater is?
Love What You Wear will update your style without stress.
Get dressed from ANYWHERE in the world.
Look and feel great and appropriately dressed to tackle your day.
Never stress about what to wear no matter what home you're in.
Be your best dressed self wherever you are in the world.
Styling powerhouse female clients since 2001, Alexandra's approach is easy and in-depth. Transform your style today!
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Love What You Wear - Alexandra Suzanne Greenawalt
EXPLODING CLOSETS AND NOTHING TO WEAR
Have you ever gotten home from the grocery store with $100 dollars worth of groceries but then realized you don’t have the right ingredients to make a meal?
You shopped based on what inspired you but without any real plan of what you were going to make.
You have the meat but not the seasonings or the veggies.
You have fantastic artisan truffles, but you’re not sure what to do with them.
This is also exactly what happens to women and shopping.
They see a fabulous piece, have to have it and purchase it but with no real understanding or plan of what to wear it with.
And then it sits in the closet unworn and lonely, never taken for a walk outside.
So you go back to the department store, spend more money, maybe with a personal shopper, and find more fabulous statement worthy pieces but with no mates.
And you have contacts with the sales girls at all the boutiques, and you shop there with their ‘help’.
You shop and shop, yet you never feel you have anything to wear that feels like you.
And this cycle repeats itself.
And soon your many closets are bursting with items that you aren’t wearing.
This is one of the reasons most women only wear 20% of their closets.
You’re bringing more items into your houses and closets and not much are going out.
How can you donate an item that you spent hundreds of dollars on that still has the tags on?
It feels wasteful you say.
It feels like you’re admitting failure.
If you’re not in the habit of pruning and editing out pieces that you haven’t worn, your closet doesn’t get any more manageable with time.
Just worse.
Until you reach a breaking point.
You may be at that breaking point now.
Anne, beautiful in her 40s, lives on Park Avenue near the Guggenheim Museum and spends weekends during the winter in her home in Palm Beach with her husband. In the summer they weekend at their house in the Hamptons. They are newly married. Anne works in the healing industry and has worked very hard to build her expanding practice. Her husband is also very successful. They are social but mainly prefer to hang out at home. They do attend black tie events during the year and it’s usually because of accepting awards. Anne is well aware of the social norms in the scene and how most women dress. She is not interested in looking like all the other women; she wants to look elegant, chic, down to earth, and in control. She is also well aware that the circle they frequent in Palm Beach at the private clubs is a whole different monster, style-wise. Her husband likes to get involved in her clothing and often buys her outfits from Ralph Lauren, but Anne doesn’t feel good about her wardrobe or her style. She just grabs her favorite jeans and t-shirt. She jokes that in her fancy NYC building, the way she dresses, she is mistaken for staff.
She is equally paralyzed about wearing the items in her closet whether they’re dressy or casual. Her closets are filled with expensive clothing and accessories, most of which don’t get worn. She has lots of items that are black but also lots of pieces with hardware, zippers, embellishments, prints, basically strong pieces. She wears about 10% of her closet, mostly her jeans and white t-shirts. She has lots of ‘orphan pieces that have no mates’ but have lots of personality. Still, Anne thinks that somewhere in her closet there are mates, but she just doesn’t know them. When she is in Palm Beach she often goes to wear an outfit and then realizes that the perfect purse for the outfit is at a different home, and she’s not sure which one. And none of the purses she has at this house work with this outfit. She’s not one to stress about ‘style’ things because she has much more important stuff in her life, but these ‘tiny’ challenges do throw a cog in her wheel. She finds herself paralyzed and not sure what to wear. She knows women can be gossipy about what people wear to what event.
In the Hamptons they are more casual, but she has things in her closet there that she shuttled from other homes because they weren’t getting worn. But they still aren’t getting worn in the Hamptons either.
This is where I come in. I’ve helped women with multiple homes achieve style success. And you don’t need to change yourself. You don’t need a perfect body. You don’t need more or less stuff; you just need the RIGHT amount of stuff for your life and homes.
In this book, you’re going to learn the exact styling process I use with my private clients and how you can create a system that works for you and your current lifestyle. For best results, make sure to download the free workbook, which you can download at AlexandraStylist.com/workbook, as I’ll be referring to it throughout the following pages.
The style prescription process includes four major steps:
~DEFINE
~DETOX
~SHOP
~STYLE
Ready? Great, let’s get rolling.
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