Hello, everyone, and welcome back to an all-new episode of the Financial Confessions. It's me,

your host, Chelsea Fagan, founder and CEO of the Financial Diet, and person who loves to talk about

money. And when it comes to talking about money, as we've addressed on this channel before,

it's hard for many people, especially many women who do do make up the majority of the TFD audience,

to think about spending and discretionary spending especially without thinking about how we dress ourselves.

It can often be sort of written off as a vain or superficial or, I guess, many other words that basically often boil down to just things

women like.

But dressing is not just a question of aesthetics.

It's not just a question of looking a certain way for the pure sartorial pleasure of looking

that way, although it can be.

And we interviewed a YouTuber Mina Lay recently, and I'll link you to our interview with her

in the description, who is someone who uses style not just as a means of getting around, but also as a means of personal and creative expression, who is experimental with her style, who ultimately uses style as a way to express herself similar to any other form of artistic expression.

But more than that, for most people,

and again, the pressure is even higher on women.

How we dress ourselves and present ourselves in the world

goes far beyond just the sartorial or the creative or the artistic.

It's about how we're perceived, how seriously we're taken,

the kinds of jobs that we may be able to get,

the spaces in which we can move around, the connections we form, the way people judge us.

And yes, to an extent some of this is unfair, and all of this is often extremely classist.

But for many people, for example, who might come from a lower income background or be struggling

financially, being

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