159: 18 Ways to Define Your Classic Style in Life and Within Your Closet (top episode from Season 4)
The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
Shannon Ables
4.7 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Cultivating our signature style takes time because it involves understanding ourselves and bringing our truest selves forth. In other words, our signature style is more than what we see on the surface.
When we discover what our signature style is, it will become a classic for us uniquely because it is a timeless revelation that will not subside with time. It may ebb and flow to adjust with the offerings of sartorial collections of the zeitgeist, but at the core, who you are, remains the same. What you value - characteristics of importance - i.e. integrity and warmth; what brings forth your most beautiful and best self - a particular silhouette and a particular fit so you feel most comfortable as well as stunning; each of these and more are small, but significant parts of your classic, and thus signature style.
In today's episode of the podcast, a readers' favorite from last season, discover 18 ways to define your very own classic style. With each point, there will be great discussion and examples, so be sure to tune in to the audio version.
~View the show notes for episode #159 here
~Images 2 & 3 - previous posts shared on IG of Shannon's style over the years
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style. |
| 0:16.2 | 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 the Simple Sophisticate Podcast and welcome to August. This is the last |
| 0:48.8 | archive episode we're going to share this summer before we get into brand new episodes starting next Monday, |
| 0:54.8 | August 12th because French Week is starting. And yes, there will be two new episodes next week. |
| 1:01.1 | So on Monday and then one later in the week. So tune in, stop by, check it out. |
| 1:06.3 | And I think you're going to have a great tour around Paris with one of my guests as well as |
| 1:11.6 | the type of episode that you most often find |
| 1:14.4 | when you come here just me sitting in my office talking about something and |
| 1:18.8 | next week it will be associated with the French culture. Before I get to today's topic, which by the way is about classic style in your life and within your closet, |
| 1:30.0 | I would like to send a big thank you to so many listeners who just on Monday provided me with a lot of feedback to make a decision about the podcast. |
| 1:39.6 | And that's not a big scary changing decision, but what happened recently is Apple |
| 1:44.0 | podcast have been shifting from iTunes to Apple podcast and they've |
| 1:48.2 | actually been making a bunch of different options available for categories |
| 1:52.4 | for a podcast. Now that also means that they were |
| 1:55.2 | editing out some categories and one of those categories they edited out entirely |
| 2:00.0 | was Health Self Help which was the category I had chosen five some odd almost six years ago five years ago five years ago and to be honest |
| 2:11.2 | Self Help wasn't the option I had hoped or thought best qualified for what this particular |
| 2:17.6 | podcast was about, but it was the most inclusive of what we talk about. |
| 2:21.9 | So this is actually a very good thing I think that has happened |
| 2:24.4 | for the podcast, but it also meant that there were a lot of options and I had three categories |
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