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Life Kit

Personal style when your body changes

Life Kit

NPR

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Education, Business

4.3 β€’ 3.9K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It's important to feel good in your clothes. But when your body goes through big changes β€” say, you've just had a baby or are recovering from an illness, it can be hard to dress up in the morning. This episode will help you reframe your relationship with fashion β€” and give you the confidence to wear what you want.

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You're listening to Life Kit from NPR. Hey everybody it's it's Mariel. Today we're talking about personal style when

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your body changes and look maybe it feels a bit indulgent or shallow to explore your fashion

0:34.6

sensibilities with everything else going on in your life or in the world. But the

0:39.1

way our clothes fit us and how we feel in them can have a big effect on our day-to-day lives and so when your body

0:45.3

changes especially if that change was out of your control.

0:48.6

The tiny bit of agency that comes with getting dressed in the morning and feeling like you kind of know what's

0:54.6

going to happen when you put your pants on or your shirt on and you're going to go out and they're

0:58.3

going to look the way that you're used to them looking. Having that gone is a big deal.

1:03.7

And like that deserves a moment of validation, I think.

1:07.5

That's Sophie Strauss.

1:08.7

She calls herself a stylist for regular people.

1:11.3

I think the thing I realized is styling is this thing that

1:14.7

people associate with luxury and wealth and celebrity so I thought well what

1:20.6

makes it clearer to people that I'm for them.

1:23.0

You know, this is a luxury type service

1:26.0

that anybody deserves to have.

1:29.0

Sophie's always loved fashion.

1:31.0

She'd often put together little shopping guides for friends, but

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