style stories: Virginia Sole-Smith
Trying to find your style in the shouting noise of influencers, fashion “experts”, and retailers can be hard. What is what you like and what is what you’ve been told to like? What is what you like and what is what you’ve been conditioned to think you have to wear because of your body? What barriers have prevented you from actually being able to put the aesthetic style you’re drawn to into practice?
The first session I do with any long term client is a combination style and body story session1. I want to hear from them what their relationship to clothes has been over the course of their life, what they loved to wear as a child, what others wanted them to wear, how messages about their body kept them from trying things they might like. It’s honestly my favorite part of the process. I love hearing about people’s lives.
Whenever I see a woman who looks at ease in her clothes, I want to know her story. I want to know how she got to that place. Combine that with my love for questionnaires2 an…