Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style.

I'm your host, Shannon Ables.

And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a

cafe ole, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Well, we're Monday. I figured one of the best ways to assuage the frustration maybe or the shock of a Monday, especially a Monday after a holiday as

we're experiencing here in the States today, is to talk about style or fashion or clothes

or going into that closet finding that outfit

that you just can walk out the door feeling

absolutely confident with.

And we haven't done that in a while.

We haven't done that since episode 3. So haven't done that since episode three so I thought

we were well overdue to talk about style. So that's what we're going to do today.

I'm going to share with you seven components of building your signature style.

When we did do the podcast that talked about the 10 essential wardrobe items for your

closet in podcast three, a lot of you emailed me and said, okay that's great, I'll go get get those I'll keep those on my list but how do I

create a signature style what does that mean and while I do have blog posts on that I

will have links to those on today's show notes. I wanted to kind of dive even

deeper into it. In fact, in my book that is coming out this December in just a few weeks and you can actually

order it now on Amazon if you'd like. I do talk about this explicitly, how to create

a signature style. So I want to kind of begin with this concept of why should someone create

a signature style? That's great and dandy, but why am I doing this?

Why am I doing all this shopping?

Now, in the initial stages or initial steps,

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