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2 days ago | 
dacygillespie.substack.com | Dacy Gillespie
I won’t take too much time before getting into my purchases since I talked about my experience of allowing myself permission to buy in last week’s post. Read on for what I bought, what didn’t work out, how much I spent, and to weigh in on whether I should keep or return one particular item. (My two year Substack anniversary is coming up on Friday, and subscription prices will be going up.
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1 week ago | 
dacygillespie.substack.com | Dacy Gillespie
Interested in exploring your personal style? Check out my Uncover Your Authentic Style workshop. It’s $47, but you can get 20% off with code “substack20”! Sometimes life feels hard because of the decisions involved. I hate doing the grocery shopping because literally every item on the list is a decision to make. We need ketchup? Ok, do I get store brand or name brand? Heinz or Hunt’s? Organic or high fructose corn syrup? Big or small? Sriracha or plain? It’s all too much.
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2 weeks ago | 
dacygillespie.substack.com | Dacy Gillespie
This thread is for subscribers in the unflattering membership. If you’d like to upgrade so that you can ask me to find something for you, you can do that here. As a member, you get access to this thread, access to 3 of my online mini-courses, my spreadsheet of over 250 retailers (Virginia Sole-Smith called it “gold”), and all the regular paid subscribers perks like the ability to comment and to see my monthly shopping picks.
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2 weeks ago | 
dacygillespie.substack.com | Dacy Gillespie
Welcome to style stories, an interview series where I ask guests about their relationship to clothes over the course of their life, how external influences have shaped it, and the ways they’ve beenable to reject societal expectations on what they should wear. I was first aware of as the person who ran the Instagram account @selltradeplus.
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3 weeks ago | 
dacygillespie.substack.com | Dacy Gillespie
This is your last chance to join my group program, Making Space! Making Space takes all of the best ideas I’ve developed through twelve years of personal styling and hundreds of one-on-one clients and puts them into one 8 week course. Not only do we work through defining your style, editing your closet, and learning to shop mindfully, but we also break down ideas like age-appropriate dressing and what’s flattering and how that might be keeping you from finding your authentic style.
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3 weeks ago | 
dacygillespie.substack.com | Dacy Gillespie
I think it’s a pretty rare woman whose body doesn’t fluctuate. Some bodies change sizes throughout a day (Lottie Drynan’s built a huge following normalizing dressing for bloating), some throughout a month, some throughout the seasons, and some over a lifetime. Even if we’re able to accept this biological fact of nature (and for most of us, that will be a lifelong journey of its own), it doesn’t help us with practical issues when our clothes don’t fit.
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3 weeks ago | 
dacygillespie.substack.com | Dacy Gillespie
The Making Space group program is now open for enrollment! The name of the program has several meanings to me: we can literally make space in our wardrobe by letting go of things that no longer serve us, we can make space in our minds by letting go of fashion rules that harm us, and we can give ourselves permission to physically make and take up space instead of shrinking ourselves and our needs to fit the space society has allotted to us. Here’s the curriculum:Week 1: What is your style story?
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3 weeks ago | 
dacygillespie.substack.com | Dacy Gillespie
Aside from Substack, I spend my time working one-on-one with clients to help them feel like themselves in their clothes. I also run a group program called Making Space. While we cover the same material as I do in my one-on-one work, the group experience is really quite different.
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4 weeks ago | 
dacygillespie.substack.com | Dacy Gillespie
As I’ve been thinking and writing about clothing spending over the last couple of months, I knew I wanted to get takes from people who spend most of their work life thinking about money, so I interviewed five amazing personal finance Substackers. We’ve heard from Dana Miranda from Healthy Rich, Lindsey Stanberry from The Purse, Pauline de Zeeuw from Money Feelings, and Michelle Teheux from Untrickled. For our last in the series this week, we get to hear fromfrom The Joint Account.
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1 month ago | 
dacygillespie.substack.com | Dacy Gillespie
Before we jump in, if a topic like this is something you’d like to work on and discuss with a small group of like minded humans, you might be interested in my group program, Making Space. We start in two weeks, so make sure you get on the waitlist to get notified when it goes on sale!I’m not really a proponent of wardrobe challenges like no buy or low buy years, for the simple reason that these are prescriptive plans and people might be applying them to their lives regardless of their situations.
