I'm Sari.

And I'm Haley.

And this is Seamwork Radio.

Welcome back to Seamwork Radio, where we share practical ideas for building a creative process so you can sew with intention and joy.

And today we're talking about style signatures.

So we're going to cover what style signatures are, how they can help you better define your

personal style, how to come up with your own style signatures, and then how to deploy

them in your wardrobe.

All right, so our icebreaker, to start us off today, Haley.

When you were younger, did you have a

signature garment or item that you wore all the time? Well, yes. I think I've gone through phases

with things like this, where there were things I was really fixated on. At one point, it was really

short dresses and opaque tights, which I can still get

behind, honestly. At another point, I was really in, this is like in the Tweed era. I was in my early

20s and I was just could not get enough really fitted bodices and fuller skirts. And I had this one pattern that I would make

like over and over again, but I had this Ziploc baggy of pattern pieces with variations.

Different collars, different necklines, a princess seam variation, just keyholes, like buttons.

And I just like hacked this pattern to smithereens.

I think that by the time I had tired myself of this pattern, I probably had hacked like

at least a dozen variations

in bodices and skirts that I could mix and match, which I think became part of the obsession

because I fit it perfectly to my body.

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