Returning to Myself

What happens to your style when everything else changes?

In Episode 2 of Styled, Off Script, we’re joined by Maloree—longtime Dia team member—as we talk about how style evolves through motherhood, life shifts, and the seasons where getting dressed feels more like survival than self-expression.

From growing up loving fashion but not always seeing herself in it, to rediscovering her style after years of putting herself last, Maloree shares what it’s looked like to come back to herself—and how getting dressed plays a role in that.

We also talk about:

• how motherhood reshapes your relationship with style
• the balance between comfort and feeling put together
• and what it really means to “show up” in your clothes

Plus, we introduce this week’s SOS Style Emergency: what to wear when your job is remote—but your role has leveled up.

🎙️ Listen in for real conversations about style, identity, and getting dressed—off script.

For the full transcript of this episode or to submit your own SOS Style Emergency, visit ⁠dia.com/SOS

Episode Transcript

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OK, we are live and we're live on not just any day.
We are live on the day that the first episode is out.
We did it. We did it.
And admittedly, I thought that this episode was going to come
out right before Mother's Day, but the person that sets the

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schedule for me wasn't really thinking.
So it's actually going to come out right after Mother's Day
because we're doing this bi weekly versus weekly and.
At least to start. At least to start.
Yeah. So while this is not coming out

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before Mother's Day, it's comingout just after Mother's Day.
And truly, every day is Mother'sDay.
Every day. Every day.
And I am joined by two mothers, mothers and mothers in every
sense of the word. Obviously my Co host Liz is a
mother. And and we're also joined by

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Mallory, Producer Mallory, who we teased on last week's
episode, teased her attendance, not her.
We could tease you while you were here, Mallory.
I could tease. Mallory a lot, though I.
Mean I did listen to make sure but.
Good to know. That's true, That's true.
But Mallory's here and we're excited to have.
You, Mel, welcome Mallory. So.

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Excited. Who do you want to give the
listeners? Because I know we have several.
Do you want to give the listeners a little review or a
little bio or intro to who you are?
Yeah, so I, my name is Mallory, obviously.

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I've been at DIA for eight years.
I literally went back and lookedlast night to see when my start
date was and it's been a while, a hot minute.
I started as a stylist, a part time stylist.
When Liz came on, I was promotedto senior stylist and then moved
to customer service. And then last year was I moved

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over to Dia Shop and was on the marketplace operations side.
And now I'm back with Dia style and marketing team with Marge
and. Marge.
Back where I'm where I needed tobe.
I. Love that.
I love that for you. I love that for me.

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It's a it's been great. It's actually funny because I,
we never actually worked together.
Like we were always on differentteams and we, you would come to
me for like CX things every so often and like we obviously knew
of each other and and got to know each other over the last
couple of years. But it's been really, really fun

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to a just have somebody on on myteam.
But also the fact that it's you is, is really awesome and it's
been thrilled. I'm thrilled.
It's funny to talk about motherson this episode where we
introduce Mallory because sometimes I feel like you're my
child and watching you grow in your roles.

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And I'm also the bait. I'm just the baby of the group
anyway, so the baby. Of the group I mean, let's be
real no, I just I'm so proud of the way you I mean, we'll talk
about your role as a true motherbut goodness, you came back from
your first maternity leave rightafter I started I think and.

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Yeah. My how much you've been through
personally and professionally since then?
Yeah, yeah, Gavin was only like a few weeks old when I came
back. Yeah.
Which was crazy. That was nuts.
Yeah. No, he's like a little like a
human. I know he turns.
Five No. Next month makes him a throw up.

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In a good way. In a good way, yeah.
I love that I love that. I also know I'm going to choose
a little a little something thatis somewhat inside baseball.
I know that you and Liz are currently actively sharing a
craft hobby that you enjoy, but not only is it a hobby, you've
legit made it a business. And I have dabbled in this

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craft, but not really recently, and I would love to give you a
second or more to share a littlebit about.
It so I actually, Liz was a reason I started it.
I had an idea. It's the company is called

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Little Roost Studios. It's a needlepoint design
business. And I had an idea after I was
scrolling one day and I saw somebody showing like the
vintage little people birthstonenecklaces that they found on
eBay. And I was like, Oh my gosh.
It just brought back like a flood of memories.

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And I text Liz and I was like, Ihave an idea to turn these into
little bag charm needlepoint canvases.
What do you think? And she was like, yes.
Brilliant So. And.
That's vintage. Yeah.
Is jarring for me. That makes me want to throw up,
but yeah. I love that for you though.

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Yeah, and it has been ABS. It blew up more than I thought
that it ever would. So it's been a blessing and it's
so much fun and just like healing in a lot of ways, so.
I love that, it's very fun. You both have inspired me to and

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like take a look at more crafts.I'm like especially needlepoint,
which I did a ton of as a kid and I've dabbled in throughout
the years. But I'm a big like I'll pick up
a craft or a project or hobby and I'm in it heads down for a
couple of months and then and soI have sort of the ghosts of all

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of the hobbies left behind. So I have buckets of yarn and
like all kinds of things, but this is honestly the one thing
that I've stuck with long term and that I don't see myself ever
putting back down. Like it doesn't take a ton of
brain power, which is what I love about it because I can turn

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off my brain and still be doing something productive that feels
productive in my hands. And it's just, it's very
therapeutic. And it sounds really silly until
you do it and then you're like, oh, I get it.
And my sisters all teased me forlike a year and then they
finally tried it and they were like, oh, I get it now.

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And I said see. Yeah, and now you're making
money with it. And they're like, oh, OK.
And not to, like, bring it all back to the mom connection, but
I do think that there is one. Like, for me, I am constantly
trying to reprioritize, like what I need to be doing.

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Should I be working? Should I be doing laundry?
Should I be making dinner? Should I be, you know, going to
a committee meeting? And first of all, I love that
sometimes I can be needlepointing when I'm doing
other things, like I can take myneedlepoint to a committee
meeting or I can be attending a meeting at like a virtual

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meeting at work and needlepointing at the same time
because I'm just listening or like sitting in an audience at
my kids recital and needlepointing.
I don't know, but it's also likevery much me time and, and
that's really, really important to me.
Like I do, I don't know, I feel like I, I am finally, my kids

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are older than Mallory's kids, but it took me a really long
time to truly understand that I do very little for myself.
And this is something that I do for myself.
But it's important for me to carve out something that's just
for me and to be OK with that and to own that.
And I don't know, I'm, I'm like proud of myself for doing that.

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I'm really proud of Mallory for like, not only doing it for
herself in an artistic way, but in a business minded way too.
So yeah, kudos to you, Mallory. Once again, my Mama heart is
proud of you. Thanks.
I love that. I love that.
I would love to get into and maybe that that sort of ties in.

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I think the making and and sort of brain that that you both use
in in that is like a very creative brain, which also makes
no surprise that you work in fashion and style where that
sort of creativity, colors, patterns, the like connective
brain tissues are all sort of there as well.

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Like I would love to hear a little bit about your Mallory.
I'd love to hear about your style in general, but I'm really
curious. I'm not a mom, but I'm very
curious how, how like style evolves, if anything, becoming a
mom. I think there's like that
stereotype that it's like, oh, she's dressed like a mom or

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she's like, oh, I'm going to dress like my mother, whatever.
I know both of you and I know your style and I am just really
curious to hear sort of like howyou how you talk through your
style and and how it's evolved in in all the ways.
Yeah, it was it was last night as I was thinking about this

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episode and what kind of the outline was, I was thinking
back. And ever since I was a kid.
But fashion has always been veryimportant to me.
And I remember growing up when Iwas in like elementary school, I
used to have this Barbie like color thing.

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And it was, it did like the impression.
So you would put the plates downand then you put the paper on
and then you would color on top of it.
Yep. And that was like my favorite
thing. And I was like, I'm going to be
a fashion designer and. I like that, right?
Like you could choose like top and bottom.
Yeah, yeah. Wow.
And I got a sewing machine one year.

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Did I just cut out? No.
You're good. OK, My screen went dark.
I forgot to touch my mouth. But I got a sewing machine one
year and was making dolls from clothes for my Barbie dolls.
And that has just like always gone with me.

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And I used to be very I I just loved clothes and I loved the
way that they can make people feel.
But I had a really hard time with myself.
I was always the one that peoplecame to for advice.
But growing up I was always the bigger girl.
The things that I liked were never in my size.

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So I was dressing other people the way I wanted to dress and
like helping my friends pick outthings.
But I was dressed like a 30 yearold business casual going to the
office in elementary school. So it was like it was a very
hard place to be because I didn't see myself the way I

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wanted to in my clothes and how I presented myself.
But as we've progressed in fashion and just having more
options, my like college years, end of high school, college, I
felt like I was really, I found myself and I dressed how I

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wanted to dress because I had the options available.
There were so many. And honestly, thanks to Dia,
that's when I became a Dia customer and then eventually a
stylist. So yeah, it was.
Like it was crazy. Dia opened so many doors for me
in so many ways, like as a customer, but then as a stylist

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and continuing on through my life.
But when I got pregnant with my son pregnancy was very hard on
me and there are no plus size maternity clothes like they're
pretty much non existent. Yeah.
Maternity clothes in general arenot cute but you add the plus

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size in and good luck. So it was.
I literally lived in big T-shirts and leggings and I feel
like that's what I've been in for through my pregnancy,
through him, through my daughterin the past few years.
I've just been, I feel like survival mode for me.
So that had got put on the back burner and style and fashion

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wasn't, it was more just like I need to get dressed so I have
clothes on my body, not I need to get dressed to make myself
feel good. And I've done, I mean, just gone
through a lot just in my personal life through loss and
through becoming a mom, having hard pregnancies, having a baby

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in the NICU and doing a lot of work on myself this past year.
I feel like I'm finally coming out of that survival mode and
finding who I am again and beingable to wear what I want to wear
and express myself and just be me, which is crazy.

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Like motherhood really strips you down and then build you back
up in a way that you would neverexpect and it is the most life
altering change. I love that.
If anybody's betting on when Marge is going to cry, here we

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are. I, I love that.
I love that. I, I think I, I wanted to jump
in at one point, but I was like,no, no, no, she's got this.
I said to anybody who was a plussize kid and couldn't find
outfits at the limited to or justice should be entitled to a
financial compensation. Because again, I was also

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dressed like I was a librarian or a bank teller or an
accountant or a teacher in everyschool photo from kindergarten
from like maybe first second grade to 8th grade and had to
shop at like Talbot's women withmy mom who also bought her
clothes there because that was all that was available.

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So like sun dresses with matching cardigans, whether or
not that was my vibe or like Husky jeans and big clothes.
And so the childhood like not finding outfits, like finding
options is just like so, so, so real.
But playing dress up. I think maybe it's like the

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pipeline to not finding clothingthat you love yourself, but then
repurposing that with like dolls.
Like I was a big Barbie, big American girl doll, like I and
my favorite part was the dressing them up.
Like I couldn't care besides like making them all kiss
because I think that's what everybody does.

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Like besides that, it was the outfits.
It was like who's going to wear what?
Where are we going? What are we doing?
Like, what are we wearing there?And then whatever happens, I was
like, OK, cool. Like I don't care.
But I needed to have their, like, outfits and their rooms.
And I liked the design of it all.
So I love, I loved it. That that's also something that

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that you found. I think it was like a
therapeutic way to like sort of express that and then with
friends. Totally.
Yeah, for sure. I think it's really interesting
because I like, had a bit of a different experience growing up.
Like I didn't have trouble goinginto stores and finding things

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that fit. But like, we talked about this a
little bit on our last episode. Just like trying to use clothes
as a way to fit in with other people was my challenge.
And like wanting to use clothes as a way to match everybody
else. And after having kids, I
remember and again, my kids are a little bit older.

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I. Almost feel like that was a
turning point for me in all of asudden feeling like, I don't
know, I felt a kind of freedom after having kids where all of a
sudden I didn't care as much about what other people were
doing. And I, in so many aspects of my

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life, becoming a mom, change my focus.
I think it just changed my focusaway from me.
And like, I just felt a different kind of freedom than I
had felt before. And I felt an independence
maybe, and a sense of self that I hadn't felt before.

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And that translated to what I was wearing.
Like all of a sudden, I felt empowered to wear things that
reflected myself in a different way.
And I started to like feel more confident in my own style.
And part of that, I think was I was raising kids.
My kids were babies at the time,not like mommy blogging was

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becoming popular. And I saw all these women online
who were like, I don't know, sort of taking this like
empower, like we're finding empowerment and how they showed
up as themselves, you know, theywere making a by what they were
wearing. And I found confidence in that,

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too. And it was the first time in my
life that I, like, realized thatI could sort of be me.
And what I wore could be a reflection of that as well.
Yeah. So, and sometimes that meant I
was wearing like, you know, leggings with spit up on them.
A lot of times that what that's what it meant.

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But it also meant that like I was I was sort of shopping in a
different way and picking outfits, putting outfits
together that I don't know, we're very different than what I
was wearing before. All of a sudden I was definitely
showing up differently and that was really fun.
I think what's so, so interesting about about

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listening to both of you talk through that.
I think the what stands out to me is the you go through in, in
sort of the nine months leading up to it.
And then the the years later. So much of yourself is given to
this young child and, and all the things and demands that are

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sort of put on you that you sortof put that that's like the last
thing on the list. And, and I think that's, that's
really relevant with a lot of people.
And then you either find ways tolike work with what you got you,
you like it is what it is. And then maybe there's like that
moment where it's like, actually, I can, I can control

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like, I can actually use this aslike a, a point of like, I'm a
new person now. I can reinvent that style.
I can evolve and and it's less about like.
Instead of caring what other people think, it's like, no, no,
no. Like I literally made a human
with my body. Like I don't have the mental

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energy to care about what anybody else thinks.
Exactly. I wanna wear what I wanna wear.
And with loss or, or with like the really toughest moments of
life, it really sort of puts that like and like, I literally
can't. I don't have the energy to care
in the same way that I did before.
And that doesn't mean that like I don't want to care.

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I just don't have the capacity to do it and and then when you
like can start to take some of that back is an expression of
self love or really like leaninginto your style is like owning
it is is really, really powerful.
I was going to say or like, I actually do care, and I care in
a different way than I did. Before.

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Like like I don't care to fit inor to.
Right to sort of. Fold fall into a mold.
I care to show of it as myself and to like, you know, speak up
a little bit more for my and how.
Powerful is that that your kids then get to see that.

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That's. Exactly.
Like, yeah, go ahead, Mallory. Sorry.
I think, I think that's exactly it.
It's just like like Lisa, it becoming a mom changes your
focus. You used to, whether you realize
it or not, focus a lot on yourself.
And because that's all you have to worry about.
It's always just you when you become a mom that shifts and now

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you have these other little people that are depending on you
and it it just shifts everything.
And it's like, I don't care whatsomebody down the street thinks
about, like, all I care about iswhat my kids think and that's
it. That's it.

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I don't care if somebody gets mad that about a decision I
made. I made it knowing that it was
what was best for me and my family.
And that's all that matters. And that reflects in so many
ways. Exactly.
And I think it's so interesting what your kids take from that

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because my kids, I have two kidsand they are so different.
Ezra is 11. No, he's 12.
Sorry, Ezra, he's 12 and he isn't.
I mean, he takes it literally. He's a mini fashionista.

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Like he, it's hilarious. We went on a walk the other
night. We were walking the dog and he
is talking to me about his plant.
He's starting junior high next year and he's literally planning
his wardrobe and what he wants to buy.
He wants like white, like jeans that are low slung.
And he's telling me how he wantsthese certain long sleeve crew

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neck shirts so that he can push up his sleeves a certain way
with a flannel layered over and if he's really lucky, like a
certain hoodie and then a denim jacket layered over it.
I'm like, OK, like he has every detail plans to the extreme.
And then my other child, Evie, who's 15, has taken like the

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details of the fashion. But it's like, it's not, it's
not fashion. It's like creativity.
So it's the patterns and the texture and the pairing of
things. And that was from an extremely
young age. We were looking at pictures last
night because they're getting ready to submit things.

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They're they're graduating from junior high and so they're
submitting pictures for like a retrospective and we were going
through pictures and from a super young age, they're pairing
like a captain's hat and a Cape and butterfly wings and a
Thrasher T-shirt. And like this combination is

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Evie to AT and is that fashion? I don't know, but it is.
And like, I really feel like both of those things come from
my influence. Yeah, A. 100% and they are the
two different extremes of the spectrum, you know what I mean?

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Like they, Ezra has cultivated this into fashion and Evie has
cultivated this into creativity and it comes out in their
artwork now and like how they think about the world and Ezra
is in how he dresses himself andhow he wants to craft a look.
But it is it's sort of the same thing and it's also totally

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different. And I think it's it all comes
from sort of my influence on them.
And I think that that's really cool.
Yeah. I think Grayson.
'S going to be like Evie becauseshe is 100% in the she will put
a multiple tutus on at once but she wears 1 Tutu as a as a shirt

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and the other one has a skirt and will wear a shirt as a
scarf. So we're she's very utilitarian.
Yes. I will say I joined Mallory and
I had a meeting. Was it this week or last week
where all I see is this like glowing blue tool sort of like

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fluff through in like a reflection behind Mallory.
And I was like, quick question, is Grayson's dress glowing?
And she's like, why? Yes, Yep, that is her Elsa dress
and it lights up. I was like, I mean.
I would expect nothing less. Absolutely.
And then she said I so pretty she.

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Did yes she was. I miss.
See, I miss those days. It was awesome.
It was awesome. The highlight of the highlight
of my my work days is getting like fun little kiddo cameos
halfway through a meeting about metrics.
I'm like, honestly, their style is way more important.

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It's awesome. How I I want to sort of cover a
couple of the questions that I had pulled together, but I
wanted to know like, are there, what does getting dressed look
like for you today? Are there things that you love?
Do you have go to outfits? Do you have uniforms?
Do you like wear the same thing every day or switch it up

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depending on where you're going?And then any like things that
you're really loving or anythingthat you wanted like that you've
let go of in sort of this new chapter.
Yeah. Definitely.
My uniform is a pair of, I say. I've kind of let go of my skinny
jeans. They're a little bit more

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relaxed. I still have them so if I change
my mind, they're there. We can always put them in that
closet, keep them in that closet.
But a good pair of jeans. My favorite right now.
We're like the stovepipe style from Madewell and a button up
shirt and I like half tuck it inand that's the easiest, like

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throw on and go and it's easy. It looks nice and it's
comfortable and I think that's the biggest thing I need to be
able to chase a child down. Yeah.
So I, I cannot wear something that's going to fall apart, show
bits and pieces that shouldn't be shown and just be comfort is

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like my biggest thing. So I want to look together but
still be comfortable. And I think that's where I
really try to blend and find things like a good gene that has
some stretch in it, or if it doesn't have stretch in it, at
least it fits really well and I can still move in them.

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And a shirt that's not tight andrestricting and but my my
uniform is definitely a button up.
And a pair of jeans and a pair of comfortable sneakers that I
can run in Rothys. And I hate to say it but I have

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a pair of golden gooses that I wear on the daily because they
are so freaking comfortable. Just own it.
I love them. They are honestly worth the
money because I've worn them every single day for years so.
Cost per wear. Yep, yeah, girl math for sure.

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Girl math and it's free now I. Love that.
And Liz, how about you? I think it's interesting, like
my, my uniform has definitely evolved as my kids have gotten
older. I mean, I, and it's also, I
think sort of my, my kids have gotten older and my sort of role

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in life has changed too. When my kids were young, I was
working more part time. I wasn't at a desk all day.
I sort of went back and forth between my desk and trying to do
more mom duty stuff too. So I were a lot more leggings
and you know, stuff like that, Iguess, and, and skinny jeans, a

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lot of skinny jeans. I'm dating myself, I guess.
I also live in, I live on the West Coast.
So I think that that dictates a lot of what I wear now too.
I tend in the summer to wear a lot of dresses.
So we talked about nap dresses last time.
I'm, I'm just a big fan of maxi dresses, nap dresses, even sort

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of like just short sun dresses. I don't know.
I, I still think of them as likebaby doll dresses.
I just, I think they're really comfortable.
I always wear shorts underneath my dresses regardless of length.
Because no matter what age your kids are and Marge, I don't
think you've to be a mom for this.
I assume you're wearing shorts under dresses too.
Doesn't everyone wear shorts under dresses at this point?

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For the most part. OK, I would think so if it's.
A long dress? No.
If it's a short dress, you can'twalk up subway stair, no.
I mean, I don't know if we're talking like if you haven't
discovered thigh society at thispoint, what are you doing?
So I mean, I wear thighs. My aunt deep sleeps in thigh

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society. I haven't gotten that far yet,
but basically always wear thigh society.
So they're so freaking comfortable.
Yeah, if they were to talk to the pod, feel free, yeah.
Do you want to sponsor? So that's basically what I'm
always wearing. I think it's extremely
comfortable. And then I took a really long

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break from any kind of denim. We'll just blame it on COVID.
I but I have rediscovered hard pants, I'm happy to say.
And, and I, I really, I like denim, so I you'll often just
find me in a loose baggy pair ofdenim and A and AT shirt and I'm
a happy girl. The whole I'm going to put jeans

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on to work from home. I know, but I'm, I'm in them.
I'm wearing jeans now, if you can imagine.
Wow. Sitting at a desk in jeans,
yeah. What I mean, I will say there
are times that I that I do, but it's usually because.
You're going somewhere. Afterwards to go somewhere after
I came home too late before a meeting, but yeah.

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I'm sitting in jeans and I'm notleaving my house for hours and
hours and hours and I chose to put these jeans on.
They're extremely comfortable and they're.
Yeah, really happy. I.
Love that. Yeah, I love that.
Well, actually you mentioned working.
I mean we all work remote, but you mentioned working from home

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and wearing denim all day. And I actually pre read the SOS
for this week. We have SOS.
We have an SOS. We need to come up with a sound.
We need a bad signal or something, but we need a sound
producer. Mallory, this is obviously a job
for you. I did look for sounds and then

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ADHD brain had choice paralysis and I gave up and.
Let's stop for Mallory. Let's assign it to her.
Perfect, perfect. OK, so the SOS of this week if
you're new to the pod SOS is a style emergency.
We have a link in our description.
It'll take you to a form to fillout and we want to know your
style emergencies. What do you want special stylist

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help for? It could be event, could be, you
know, anything you're looking for and if you're like the
person that submitted the first SOS, their SOS response is that
what they call it is literally athemed box that you can buy now
on dia.com, which is sort of genius.

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And I don't know, I think that'slike a really good idea.
And so I think it could be interesting, depending on what
what we do going forward, it could be really cool to be like,
oh, I also have that same style emergency help me out.
And here you go. Here's a box that you can order.
So today's SOS comes from someone who would like to remain

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anonymous. And they just kept it really
short and sweet. But they said they just got a
new job, grads, but it's mostly remote and it's now a managerial
position. They are on video calls all the
time where like they have to show their face, which like we

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have often welcomed. To my life as.
Much as we used to have and theydon't say what do I wear, I
really need to up my game so we are well equipped for this.
Yeah, Mal, you want to take the first pass as our guest?

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Sure. My go to when I know that I have
that I have to be on camera, I really focus on tops.
There's no way that I'm cheatingto sit in jeans all day like
lid. I'm not thinking happens every
day, OK? I'm not like.
But I do, I will say in terms ofpants, I have a pair of joggers,

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black joggers that I can dress up or down and they're very
comfortable. So I tend to wear those a lot
when I know that I'm going to beworking, but also I need to
leave because I can dress them up with like a nicer top.
But in terms of tops, again, I always go for comfort, but I

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like to blend the two. I like to do comfort, but it
still looks nice. And I one of my go to is, is
what I'm wearing today actually.And it's a knit top, but it has
structure to it and it has thesebutton details down the sleeve,

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which I think is really cute. So I like to go for something
that has a little bit of visual interest in terms of like the
buttons or some ruching or something like that, but it's
still a knit and I can sit in itall day and not be uncomfortable
or like fussing with it. I don't want to be messing with

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something all day, especially when I'm like trying to get
things done or if I'm on camera.I think sometimes I get a little
bit uncomfortable when I'm not on with people that I know.
Like if it's a big company wide,I get a little bit more
uncomfortable and I don't want to be fidgety.
So something that just feels nice.

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It's soft, it has some structureto it so it doesn't look
slouchy, and it has a little bitof an elevation with some
buttons or some ruching or I love a good ruffle and that's my
good. That's mine.
Love it. I love that, Liz.
How about you, Eddie? OK, I've got some.

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Two different. I've got 2 tips.
My first tip is to do something layered.
So I like the idea of a collar, like something with a collar and
and then a sweater because I think that that just instantly
adds like a professional. Business, something about like a

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crisp Oxford or like a button down shirt with a collar.
I feel like I'm like. Yeah, instantly elevates, I
think so I'm, I'm, I am not suggesting a jacket of any kind,
like I would actually say no jacket of any kind.
But I think that any kind of layer, whether you're wearing a
vest over AT shirt or a cardiganand AT shirt or an Oxford and a

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sweater that just instantly elevates a little bit and and
makes it look like there's some effort.
And then I would say accessorize.
So I think whether you're addinga statement necklace or a bold
earring or a like a scarf or bandana, just.

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Press on nails. Or press on nails.
I am, if you know me in real life, yeah, I am.
I am an accessory, including nail girl.
So I just think having a big accessory of some kind, just a
headband per SE, that just will bring a whole look together and
make it look like you put some effort into your outfit.

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You didn't just roll out of bed to be there.
And let's be real, there are days when we are just rolling
out of bed to get there. And so there are absolutely days
when I am going to be in a crew neck sweatshirt, even meeting
with a team. And I like whether it be I'm

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talking to my leadership team orto the team that I lead, but by
putting my hair in a slick back and putting, you know, bigger
earrings on or, you know, putting a scarf around my neck
and putting, I don't know, a headband on, I do feel like that
just elevates the look just enough to make it appear that I

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am putting some effort into things.
So I think accessorize is key. I love that you have totally
inspired my accessorizing and there's so many really great
easy ways to do it with the like14 karat like coated jewelry
that exists now. Like I now have earrings in that

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I literally don't take off, but I feel and rings that I wear
everyday exactly totally put together and I I didn't have to
try too hard to to do it. So yeah, I love, I love those
suggestions. The only thing I would add is I
we talked about nap dresses. I love a dress.

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I love like a very flowy. It sort of feels like I'm
wearing like a night count or like a sweater dress or like a
nice utility dress. Like that's like a button up
dress that is just like really, really flowy.
I'm a fidgeter. All the time.
And so I like to take meetings either standing up or sitting
down and I, I feel like a dress is one piece and I can't really

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touch or do a whole lot with it.That that keeps things just like
really easy. And it, I usually opt for like a
little bit bigger, especially ifI'm working from home, because I
know it's going to be really flowy, but I'm still going to be
look presentable if I, if I needto sort of pull it together.
So exactly, I love that. OK, great.

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Well, we do have a couple workwear boxes for our themed
boxes. We always have a ton of amazing
workwear. And so if you're waiting for
work. From home.
Box. Yeah, we definitely could do
that. Yeah, I love that idea.
I love that idea. Casual joggers.
I see it already. Yeah.

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Got. Some great ones coming in.
I know it's if anybody doesn't know, Liz is like the mastermind
between behind all of our amazing merchandise and I am
forever grateful for for all of the options.
So if you have any specials or like if you have any like, hey,

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I wish we could have this like drop it in the comments, let us
know. We're we're always looking,
looking out for more options. So love that it is crazy to say
that we are rounding up at the very end of this and last week
we talked about Liz and I mentioned one outfit that we
would wear every day for the rest of forever if we had to.

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So I'm going to ask Mallory, close this out with one item or
one outfit that you would wear every day for the rest of.
Forever. Oh, goodness gracious.
OK, I feel like I OK, I have a dress and I think, I think me

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and Liz actually have the same dress.
I. Love.
It's an anthropology dress. Across all members of our team
at random times without any planning is insane because we
are never in the same place at the same time.
No, or some of us have never metin real life.
Yes, that that part. And it was funny because I put.

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So anyway, it's an anthropology dress and it's this really
pretty blue color and it's got like, it's almost like
watercolory looking, but it's like smoked on the top and then
really flowy. So it's so comfortable and it's
lightweight. And I live in Texas, so that is
very important, especially during the summer.

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But I've worn it all year round.Like I've put a denim jacket
over it and worn it during the winter time.
And I love it because it's long.It's a maxi dress, so I wear it
with sneakers often, but I have also worn it with heels and
dress it up even more. So it's just one of those pieces

(43:17):
that I can dress up or down and it's appropriate for any time of
the year. And it's it's my favorite piece,
I think in my closet I will not be getting.
I love that. In the first time I wore it, I
took a picture and Liz swiped upon the Instagram story and said
I think I have this dress. Of course.

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I love. Great minds.
Yeah, I love that. I love that.
Well, it has been a great time chit chatting with you gals on a
Friday, Mallory, you will hear. Well, I guess you'll probably be
on most episodes with us, if notall of them going forward.
And I'm not totally sure what the next episode will be, but

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I'm sure we'll have maybe another guest.
So it'll be four of us, which should be very fun.
Feel free to listen to our firstepisode if you haven't already.
You could learn more about the podcast, about DIA, about our
theme boxes, about our SOS. You can submit an SOS at
dia.com/SOS and we'll see y'all later.

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Thank you. Bye everyone.
Bye.