Signature Style Systems ~ Certified Personal Stylist, Image & Color Consultant, True Colour Expert

21🔸Why Gen X Is the Sexiest Generation & Does It Matter if You Can See I'm Wearing a Bra?

I’m about to offend everybody. 
Welcome to Episode 21 of the Signature Style Systems podcast, in which I share my opinions about why Generation X is the sexiest generation, and about modesty and when it is or is not ok to show your bra straps.
If you’re ready for an honest conversation about the fact that we have to wear stuff under our clothes, that’s where we’re going.
I dip into politics to explain how I think Gen X became the sexiest generation. Then hit religion and talk about modesty/purity culture. And finish up by talking about women’s underwear.
 
Let's connect!
I have a quiz: What's Your Style Personality? Take the quiz here!
Are you a DIYer? Grab the workbook: The Wardrobe Pyramid and discover what clothes you really need for your lifestyle.
Just want to take the first step in getting your wardrobe systematized? Get a bite-size closet project in your inbox every week.
Want to learn more about how to discover your Style DNA? Visit my website.
 

20🔸Style Secrets: What to Wear to Look Approachable or to Convey Power

What’s your least favorite color? For many people, it’s some version of red. In this episode, I teach you where to find your best reds and how to use them to achieve the effect you are looking for.
 
If you want me to give you your power red, that is part of my signature color palette discovery, a virtual service resulting in a completely custom palette based on your coloring and your personality, a 60 page guide teaching you how to use your colors, and a digital palette for you to have on your phone whenever you go shopping. Find it at signaturestylesystems.com.
 
Let's connect!
 
I have a quiz: What's Your Style Personality? Take the quiz here!
Are you a DIYer? Grab the workbook: The Wardrobe Pyramid and discover what clothes you really need for your lifestyle.
Just want to take the first step in getting your wardrobe systematized? Get a bite-size closet project in your inbox every week.
Want to learn more about how to discover your Style DNA? Visit my website.
 
 
 
 

19🔸Why Do Some Clothes Look Like Pajamas on Me?

Hey friend!
 
Have you ever wondered whether you could get away with buying a pajama top and wearing it for daywear? Or, conversely, have you ever bought a regular garment and then wondered why it looked like pajamas on you?
 
This episode is gonna be one that helps explain the mysteries of why some clothes work for other people but don’t fit or flatter your body. I explain a little about what makes things specifically look like sleepwear, how to choose prints that work with your facial features, and a artistic principle of style that I’m almost positive you have never heard of: complexity.
 
Let's connect!
 
I have a quiz: What's Your Style Personality? Take the quiz here!
Are you a DIYer? Grab the workbook: The Wardrobe Pyramid and discover what clothes you really need for your lifestyle.
Just want to take the first step in getting your wardrobe systematized? Get a bite-size closet project in your inbox every week.
Want to learn more about how to discover your Style DNA? Visit my website.
 
 

18 🔸 Introvert or Extravert? Signature Style Tips for More Energy

Hey friend!  
 
Have you been confused about the connection between introversion, extroversion, and energy? We could all use more energy, right? In this episode I’m going to briefly explain introversion and extraversion and some of why there might be misconceptions.
 
Then I’ll give you some tips for more energy that have nothing to do with food or sleep!
 
Let's connect!
 
I have a quiz: What's Your Style Personality? Take the quiz here!
Are you a DIYer? Grab the workbook: The Wardrobe Pyramid and discover what clothes you really need for your lifestyle.
Just want to take the first step in getting your wardrobe systematized? Get a bite-size closet project in your inbox every week.
Want to learn more about how to discover your Style DNA? Visit my website.
 

17🔸What’s Your Style Personality? Decoding the Connection Between Style Type and Myers-Briggs

Hey friend!
 
In today’s episode, I’m going to explain the style personality system behind the “What’s Your Style Personality?” quiz I built (just for fun), how it connects to Myers-Briggs, and what’s coming next around style and personality in my world.
 
With some time on my hands during Covid lockdowns, I set about creating a style personality quiz. I updated the language around the six style personalities that I used. And then, because everyone’s style is complex and personal, I added accent types for a total of 30 possible outcomes! In this episode, I tell you what the style personality types are, I explain the connection I discovered between this style personality model and the Myers-Briggs system, and I give a cheat code for if you find one particular question in the quiz challenging to answer.
 
Take the quiz here!
 
Grab the workbook: The Wardrobe Pyramid and discover what clothes you really need for your lifestyle.
Ready to begin to discover your Style DNA? Visit my website: SignatureStyleSystems.com.
Just want to take the first step in getting your wardrobe systematized? Get a bite-size closet project in your inbox every week.
 

16🔸Winter Smart Casual Outfit Templates: Three Easy Formulas

Now that the holidays are behind us, are you feeling the winter wardrobe blahs? My friend, we have more than ten more weeks of winter! If you feel like you could use some fresh inspiration that won’t leave you freezing, stay tuned; I’ve got three fresh and simple winter outfit templates for you in the latest episode of the podcast.
 
When I went to California in November of 2022, for my advanced training in color and style, I knew I was going to be evaluated everyday for my outfits. And I did not want to play it safe. I wanted to bring the outfits that I thought were fun and cool, but I had a little bit of doubt around. Because I’m just like you (but with a little more training).
 
Ultimately it was a huge confirmation to my confidence, but the outfits themselves weren’t all that helpful. Because here in Spokane WA we almost never have moderate weather. It’s either hot or cold. So in this episode, I am riffing on three business casual templates, but with updates and commentary from halfway through a 5 month long winter. 

15🔸Ready to Build a Grownup Wardrobe? 5 Easy Swaps to Level Up!

Have you been thinking you should start building a more grownup wardrobe? Do you wonder whether certain items would be worth investing in and wearing for years? Not quite sure how to uplevel from yoga pants and sneakers and still be comfortable?
 
In this episode, I’ve got five easy swaps for you to make in 2024 as you move toward a more grownup, authentic and sustainable style. 
 
And if you need help figuring out your body type, you want to get my Essential Signature Style Guide where I decode your silhouette and show you your best pant, skirt, jacket, and coat shapes. Learn more about The Essential Signature Style Guide.
 
I don’t expect you to make all these changes overnight. You can grab my free  wardrobe planning workbook and as you work through the steps, use these swaps to inform your new additions. Grab the workbook: The Wardrobe Pyramid and discover what clothes you really need for your lifestyle.
 
Ready to begin to discover your Style DNA? Visit my website: SignatureStyleSystems.com.
Just want to take the first step in getting your wardrobe systematized? Get a bite-size closet project in your inbox every week.
 
Thanks for listening!
 

14🔸 Signature Style: Why Does It Matter if You Look Like You? Spend Less Time to Create More Impact

Hey friend! Does it really matter whether you show up to your life looking and feeling like yourself? Is it really a problem for you to feel self-conscious? After all, doesn’t everybody?
 
I think it does matter, and in this episode I’m going to give you a glimpse into my personal life to explain why and then I’ll share some personality-based tips to give you a boost.
 
But first I want to invite you to grab my free wardrobe planning workbook, The Wardrobe Pyramid. you can download at the link below, or on my website Signature Style Systems.
 
Before Covid, because of some things going on in local politics, there were alot of people talking loud about the best strategies for getting people off the streets and integrated back into society. At the time, I was volunteering with a local recovery program and the hero was parking next to a train trestle and getting to know one of the residents there.
 
Then in one day driving through town and seeing the people walking across the street with all the earthly possessions, I had two realizations:
1) I could do more. There was so much need and I could do more.
2) Pretty much anybody, in any job, could do it such a way as to improve the life and the chances of others. And not just specific others, my vision is universal flourishing. I honestly believe we need everyone contributing at their greatest point of impact to solve the mammoth problems we have: homelessness, cancer, global warming. Loneliness.
 
So, what has that to do with you feeling self-conscious about how you look?
For years, I was not seen as who I am and therefore I didn’t attract opportunities that were inline with my gifting. I looked like a generic mom, so people asked me to babysit.
 
And I wasted alot of time and money on shopping for clothes that I didn’t end up feeling like myself in. So my why is for you to be able to waste less of your life on shopping and trying to make outfits and to have more time to do more important things, and more impact by being seen for who you truly are.
 
Ready to begin to discover your Style DNA? Visit my website: SignatureStyleSystems.com.
Thinking about a capsule wardrobe? Grab the workbook: The Wardrobe Pyramid and discover what clothes you really need for your lifestyle.
Just want to take the first step in getting your wardrobe systematized? Get a bite-size closet project in your inbox every week.

13🔸 How to Not Look Frumpy: Steal This Shortcut to Better Outfits!

Hey friend! Proportion is one of the most impactful concepts in the art of style and today I’m gonna teach you a shortcut. I’m continuing to break down how to choose pants and make outfits that work with your body type. 
 
But first I want to invite you to grab my free wardrobe planning workbook, The Wardrobe Pyramid. you can download at the link below, or on my website Signature Style Systems.
 
When I built my Signature Style University process, I worked really hard to put the information in a sequence that would make it easy for you to integrate into your thinking about shopping and making outfits. The reason for that is that there is so much technical information to know and, unless we seek it out, none of us are really trained in any of it. 
 
In the first custom style guide in the process, I share your aesthetic themes, contras level, silhouette, and this proportion hack. This is the first time I've taught this publicly.
 
Learn more about The Essential Signature Style Guide.
Ready to begin to discover your Style DNA? Visit my website: SignatureStyleSystems.com.
Thinking about a capsule wardrobe? Grab the workbook: The Wardrobe Pyramid and discover what clothes you really need for your lifestyle.
Just want to take the first step in getting your wardrobe systematized? Get a bite-size closet project in your inbox every week.

12🔸Should You Be Wearing High-Waisted or Low-Rise Jeans? Here’s What They Don’t Tell You

Hey friends! This episode is inspired by a friend’s question about choosing the right rise.
Here it is: the secret to deciding between high rise and low rise or mid rise. Choose whichever is comfortable for you! But what they’re not telling you is how to put outfits together with each. It’s completely different!
 
Honestly, it surprised me last spring to see low rise back again so soon. So in this episode, I give some simple guidance around how to get proportions right depending on which rise you choose. Because here’s the thing that’s different now from when we went through these trend cycles in the past: there is so much more freedom now to wear whatever works for you. Rather than having your style dictated by the trends, you can develop a personalized strategy. Start with my free wardrobe planning workbook which you can download at the link below.
 
I came up with these five steps to help me with my own wardrobe and I use them every season when I do my big changeover and sometimes just when I’m having a bad closet day. If you don't have the workbook yet, just go to signaturestylesystems.com and enter your email to grab the workbook, or sign up right here.
 
Ready to begin to discover your Style DNA? Visit my website: SignatureStyleSystems.com.
Thinking about a capsule wardrobe? Grab the workbook: The Wardrobe Pyramid and discover what clothes you really need for your lifestyle.
Just want to take the first step in getting your wardrobe systematized? Get a bite-size closet project in your inbox every week.