103: Effortless Style: The Truth
The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
Shannon Ables
4.7 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2016
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Is effortless style truly ever effortless? In short, yes. Today discover the five steps to tend to to ensure effortless style that will become a habit worth incorporating into your everyday.
In this week's Petit Plaisir, discover a simple, yet absolutely delicious recipe for two: Rustic Apple Tart for Two.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm your host, Shannon Ables. |
| 0:18.8 | And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a |
| 0:25.0 | cafe ole, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to one hundred and third episode of the simple |
| 0:46.6 | Sophisticate. Today we are going to be talking about style, effortless style |
| 0:51.9 | that is and the truth about it. Before I get into today's episode |
| 0:56.7 | about effortless style let me talk a little bit about a delicious putty |
| 1:01.6 | plazier you're gonna want to hang around for at the end of today's |
| 1:04.8 | episode. A few weeks ago on my Instagram feed I shared a pick of a recipe that I was |
| 1:11.6 | just blown away by for not only its taste but also its simplicity and |
| 1:16.7 | today I'm going to break it down and share with you where I got the recipe from |
| 1:20.5 | the tweaks I made to it so that in a matter of minutes in less than a half |
| 1:25.2 | hour you will have this beauty in the oven and you'll be waiting impatiently for it to |
| 1:30.4 | come out of the oven so be sure to stay tuned for this recipe at the end of today's episode. |
| 1:36.8 | But we need to get into talking about style. Effortless style is something that seems as if it is a bit of an oxymoron. |
| 1:47.0 | And today I'm going to talk about the five ways that we can acquire effortless style. |
| 1:52.6 | So we're going to talk about the truth. |
| 1:54.6 | I want to begin with a very simple quote |
| 1:56.6 | that has never really been attributed to anybody. |
| 1:58.6 | So if anybody knows who has said this, |
| 2:00.4 | I scoured the internet and all sorts of style sites. I could not figure out who said this, but it's stating something that ties in with today's topic and I think it's a great way to set the tone for today's episode. It goes, fashion is what you buy. |
| 2:16.7 | Style is what you do with it. Over the past weekend, I took on the task of doing a major edit of my closet. |
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