June 7, 2025 • 23 mins
In this fashion drop, Leigh chats with Pip Brett, founder of Jumbled in Orange, NSW, about embracing colour when you're stuck in a neutral rut.
Pip shares her expert tips for finding your perfect shades, unexpected colour combinations that work beautifully together, and simple ways to incorporate brights into even the most corporate wardrobe. Plus, why shopping in-person beats online when experimenting with new hues.
Check out Leigh's article 'My favourite unexpected fashion colour combos (and how to pull them off).'
LINKS TO EVERYTHING MENTIONED:
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Alemais Dresses
Boy Friday Bracelets
BOUJEE & BUDGET
Leigh Boujie: Bottega Veneta Sunglasses $895
Leigh Budget: 4th & Reckless Melinie Dress $130
Pip Boujie: Celia B Tahaa Dress Check $513
Pip Budget: Handmade bead bracelets
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
So much.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You're listening to a MoMA Mia podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Mama Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of land and waters
that this podcast is recorded on Hey you bees, it's
me Lee here in your ears, and it's Sunday. And
I don't know about you, but I get the Sunday
scaries sometimes around the washing I need to do and
what am I gonna wear? And wear are my clean undies.
So we're dropping Nothing to Wear here into your feed
now because sometimes it's just about rediscovering and getting creative
(00:36):
in your own wardrobe. So here's some inspiration.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Whoever said orange is a new pink with seriously deserved
laurels for spraying groundbreaking? Oh my god, you have to
do it.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
You live for fashion. Hello, and welcome to Nothing to Wear,
the podcast that solves fashion problems and levels up your wardrobe.
I'm Lee Campbell and every week I talk to an
expert who helps us work out how to get more
out of the clothes we already own and tells us
what is and isn't worth adding to our wardrobes. Our
guest today is Pip Brett, founder and owner of the
(01:11):
award winning store Jumbled in Orange, New South Wales. What
began as a small homewares store in twenty thirteen has
evolved into a destination concept store. It beautifully merges fashion
homewares and even has a cafe with a Bachelor of
Design background. And as a second generation retailer, Pip has
really carved out a distinctive niche that draws visitors from
(01:33):
all across Australia to her curated world. And today I'm
going to ask Pip all about her love for color
and how those of us who are a little intimidated
by it can inject some into our wardrobes. Pip, firstly,
welcome to the show. And secondly, your background is hands
down the best background I've ever had on a virtual guest.
That's your real home.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
That's my real home. Thanks.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
You need to take a photo and sell that backdrop
on Zoom because oh my god, it's beautiful. Now listen,
we're going to get into your world in orange, jumbled
and color in a moment. But I ask new guests
the same two questions. First, can you describe your style
in three words?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I would say color, playful, and maybe like a snidge ridiculous.
I think when I'm in my store, in my habitat
people go, oh my god, you match so well. But
when I'm at my kids basketball, I do look a
tad ridiculous, but they don't seem to care.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I love that we've not had ridiculous before, and that
is so fun. Now they say that we wear roughly
ten percent of what we've got in our wardrobe ninety
percent of the time, so there's stuff we just love
pull out. I wonder if this is relevant for you,
But anyway, the stuff we reach for more than the
other stuff, what is that stuff for you?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
It's totally relevant for me. I always reach for dresses.
I love dresses that they're one thing I put on.
They're fabulous, they're a bit fun, they might be quite
special dresses. I try not to save things to special occasions.
I try and wear them all the time because life's
the special occasion. But yeah, dresses. There's like Alime Cereia
(03:07):
b palm NEU. So then I go to and I
don't have to think.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
When prepping for this episode, I had Alime in the
back of my head all the time because that's one
of the most colorful brands I know. So I kind
of know you. Now we're going to talk about you,
your store and your love of color. I have to
tell you, I went to Orange. I've only been to
Orange once because it's kind of like four hours out
of Sydney. It's that extra for a long weekend. But
the truth is I wanted to go to Jumble, your
(03:32):
beautiful store, and I went in and it was as
joyful as I'd heard and seen. And I bought towels
and I bought clothes. And when I came back to
the car, I think my toddler at the time was napping,
so my husbands had to stay in the car and
he goes color and I'm not really a colorful person,
but it was just so infectious, the beautiful stock that
you have. So congratulations on such an amazing destination. And
(03:54):
tell me how did Jumble come about and how did
it get to where it is now? It's an institution.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Really, I'm the daughter of a failed minimalist.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
My mother loves color, and colour's kind of been that
continual in my whole life. So clothing store for twenty
five years. He is now an artist and we sell
her work at the shop. I studied fashion at UNI,
but when I finished, I opened a clothing store. So
I started with fashion first and I think that's been
going for about nineteen years. And then Jumbled is where
(04:27):
we introduced homewares because I bought a home and I
realized I loved home weares as much as I loved fashion.
So it's all just under one roof everything that I
love altogether.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Coffee, fashion, home color.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
It started off as a really baby store and it's
grown into a massive, massive store, And I think social
media and online has really been so pivotal in our growth.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And Orange is just a really cool place.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
It's always been cool, but I think every year we're
getting more and more things. So I think Jumbled sort
of been put on the map, which is super exciting.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I reckon that you put Orange on the map with Jumbled.
I've got to say, I really do.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
So.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I loved your three words, and I do want to
elaborate a bit more. Your love of color. So your
mum's a failed minimalist? Is it because you were around
it when you were young? Have you always just been
drawn to it? Have you ever been scared of it?
Because I'm not scared of it. It just feels hard.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
It doesn't feel hard.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
It just feels like a natural innate thing in me
that I just love color. And I don't mean color
for colour's sake, Like I don't. I am looking a
little bit like a rainbow today, But my house is colorful.
But colour is used in a really smart way. There's
such a science to it. Yeah, I feel like colour
comes quite naturally, but I know that for lots of
(05:44):
people it doesn't. So, like, my greatest joy is when
I show people how to wear color, or show them
a color that just like lifts them instantly.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Color is super powerful.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, it's a skill. It's like you can sing or
you can't. I don't know. It's like something that you're
born with. I mean, of course you can learn, but
if you're really passionate about it and you love it,
I think you're naturally good at it. But you're right.
You know, your interiors and everything I see on your
amazing Instagram it's colorful, but it's curated. It's not just
a rainbow vomit. Let's talk about how you help people then,
(06:17):
because I typically stick to neutrals, and you help people
incorporate color. So how do you do that? I mean,
obviously physically in a store it's a bit easier, but
for listeners listening, where do we start?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Even when you're in a store, you don't even need
to try the peace on if you don't want hold
it up to your face and look in the mirror.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Like knitwear.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
At the moment is a really good place to add
some color into your wardrobe. Put it up to your face,
and when you find that color that lifts you, your
whole face changes. And it's super amazing when you find
that thing, and it's not just one color that's going
to suit you. And don't discount a whole color because
(07:01):
someone said, oh, you can never wear yellow, Because I
bet you there's a yellow that you can wear. It
might be a buttery soft yellow, or it might be
a neon, or it might be a mustard.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I so agree.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Different tonal levels that you can explore, and you just.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Don't know if you don't try.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
But sometimes you'd need to let a shop assistent guide you.
And not everyone's created equal, but sometimes just try because
you never know. And when you try that color, you
will get so many compliments.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, I so agree with you because it's a spectrum
obviously for colors. But I've had people say to me
in the past, you look really good in this color
or something about color, and it sticks with you subconsciously,
and then I'm like, why am I avoiding that? And
also my tastes have changed in my twenties. I might
have avoided certain colors and now I try them on
and I feel joyful that I look great. So if you
avoided it before, it's worth giving it another go. And
(07:53):
I think even with your hair color changing, our skin changing,
the season's changing. I think back in the eighties and
nineties being a color consultant, remember they'd rest and you
see it a little bit on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Now back again, bring an autumn or winto Mum was
a fully qualified one of those, and lots of women
will carry those color swatches in their handbag and say, no, no,
I'm not going to try that on. I'm an autumn,
and then I wouldn't try on this beautiful springy green.
But I'm like, give it a go, because I think
it does change over time.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Even if it's not in your little flipbook. If it
brings your joy, wear it.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
One hundred percent one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
But then it gets harder because we've held up something
to our face and it's a top. It's not a dress.
Then we're talking color combinations. You are so good at combinations.
I am. Okay, I get a lot of inspo from Pinterest.
So how do you know when colours quote unquote go together?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I sometimes think the most interesting outfits in also interiors,
so coloring general, are those that are put together that
don't not typically seem to go together. There's a weird
coloring there that shouldn't really work, but it looks so
good together. In talking about the yellow again, like maybe
that buttery soft yellow with a really warm pink magenta
(09:12):
with a hit of.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Read, you know, something like that looks so great.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Or pink and green they used to see pink and
green should never be seen, but it looks so together.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
So I think when things shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Go together and that they do, I think that's really exciting.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
But I also love color blocking.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I love color blocking a whole outfit using the same
tone of color that maybe playing with textures and tones.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Okay, so that's like an all blue outfit, but it's different. Yeah,
textures and slightly different, but kind of all looks uniform
so beautiful. So how do we do that? Say we've
got a skirt at home? We love and it's a color.
Do we take that with a shopping and then try
on tops that we just wouldn't normally with that. I
do have colorful pieces, but putting them together is hard
(09:58):
and more of an online shopper. But I guess I
should go to the shops, take it with me and
see how it is irl.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I think it is so good to go to a shop,
and I love it when people bring the eye and
then at least you know it looks amazing with it
and you can be sure you don't have.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
To go back and return it. Online shopping is great.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
But things that I see online or that I buy
for the store, and then when they come in they
may not look as good.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
They may not look good on me at all.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I say, go back to the shops and give you go,
because you know, there is such a joy in the
adventure of shopping.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I think we've gotten that a lot. At our store.
We work really, really hard.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Some people may see it as quite a traumatic process,
and I get it.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
We've all got hang ups. Everyone does.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
But I love it when people walk out feeling amazing,
looking good, because when you feel amazing in what you're wearing,
you walk differently react to you differently, you talk differently.
It's like a magic there's just something that stars align
and you feel fabulous.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
On that day.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Especially now with the change in denim silhouettes and the
change in season, it's a really good time to explore
different looks, silhouettes and colors for you.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I couldn't agree more. And I think we jump online
and shop because we think it's efficient, but then it
turns up and it's not right, and then you got
to return. And you know, maybe if you can just
carve out some time and like you say, if you're
going to step out if your coume zone with shapes
or with colors, do it irl and then you can
make that decision and see it in real life and
it's probably more efficient that way.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
One hundred and even like yesterday, I just kept this
most amazing American vintage neon green knit and I am
usually small, but I decided to go the medium. I
tried that on and I was like, I love the
feet of that more and I love the color.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I wouldn't have bought the color until I tried it on.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I was like, oh, I have that, But I think
there's a lot to be said for trying on different
sizes as well.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Do you plan your outfits because you always look colorful
and joyful but effortless and just amazing. Do you plan
out your outfits or does your personality peak every morning?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I one hundred percent do not plan my outfit.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I stand at my wardrobe in my beige Brian undies
and decide on the moment, with ten minutes to be
out the door. My wardrobe is full of pieces that
I have tried on and I adore and I must have.
They're not following a trend. They're just pieces that I
(12:44):
just have to have. And my wardrobe looks really fun
and exciting. But I'm definitely dictated by my mood and
I want to go to work dressed like I'm going
to a party because I feel like that makes the
people around me feel good as well, and my staff
do the same thing.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
And I'm also dictated by what's ironed as well.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
I'm not ironing, so I'm like, I would love to
wear that, but I need to iron it.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
So the honesty I am the same. I'm like, oh,
the steamer's downstairs, you're staying in the wardrobe, But I
love that. I think you have a very distinct personal style,
but it's not labored over and that you can just
go to that area and go, I love all of this.
I'm going to check on whatever, and it's very you.
So do you see any differences in purchases and shoppers
(13:29):
across generations when it comes to fashion that come to Jumbled.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Definitely, different ages have different requirements, but I feel like Jumbled,
the fashion that we get in is quite ageless. So
yesterday we have this amazing never Fully Dressed, which is
a label from the UK, this micro mesh dress. And
you would think that mesh would be clingy, but this
(13:54):
mesh dress is amazing. It's six too and eighteen and
so I had a girl who was twenty by it,
and I also had a lady who was in her
seventies by it for a wedding end.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
They both looked fantastic.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Well, now I need to see this dress.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yes, I've got it.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I've got it here. That's amazing to show me.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I wanted to talk to you about color because I
have this same shaped mesh dress into other colourways and
they're both really pretty, but it's this color that works
so beautifully.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
So it's a beautiful corn flower blue with a.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Corally orange poppy print, and it's that contrasting colors of
orange and blue, and it just looks so flattering on
fair skin, on tan skin, gray hair, blonde. This dress
is all about the color of it, and that's why
it's so successful.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
And it just brings joy. Just looking at that fabric,
I feel joy.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Yeah, and it's flattering. It has a beautiful fell sleeve.
But I just love it that a dress like that
spans so many different generations. So when someone from different
generations comes in, it's I just think, whoever the customer
is is really important to live because listening is like
the kindest thing we can do, understanding what people need
(15:14):
and want.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
And it's interesting because that's why you've got so much
return business because I think you know when you're being
sold to and someone's saying that looks great to get
a sale, But when someone really invests in you and
listens to you and goes, Okay, yep, you like this
or you're looking for that, that's the stores I go
back into and I subconsciously avoid some that I've had
the hard cell, so you do that so well. But
that dress also just inspired me because I'm more of
(15:35):
a separates these days, But I'm confused how to put
the colors together. But that could be a beautiful color
combination in the top at a bottom that deep vibrant
orange and a cornflower blue.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
So if you remember on your color wheel as a kid,
they're contrasting across from each other and that's why they
always look so good to Yeah, so maybe you've got
some colorful dresses.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Just look at the colors if you want to make
separates work, which is kind of a bit harder than
a whole dress. And there's your colors at work.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Oh, maybe it's not so scary after all. One more
question before we get into boogie and but yet, some
of our listeners are a lot of our listeners might
work in corporate environments. I mean, I'm an office worker,
but we can wear pretty much anything, and you have
the most joyful workplace on earth. How can we express
our personal style and maybe some color in a.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Corporate world we're talking about earlier. I love color blocking. Yes,
cold blocking in corporate looks extremely exciting and very polished,
and I think it's fun to show who you are
and what you stand for and that you have a
bit of personality in a corporate environment, and I think
fashion is the perfect way to do that, even if
(16:46):
you're in quite a stiff environment. It's fun to play
and it's fun to shock, but it's also it's amazing
what the response will be from that. And I quite
like using color in a symbolic way as well, when
there's perfect times to wear red in corporate.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Environments and green and blue.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
So you can use it in that way as well.
But I think color blocking is just so so cool.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
You're so right, And I hadn't even thought of that.
I was thinking, you know, maybe someone could go from
gray and black to like aubergeine. But yeah, a beautiful
cold I know. I was like, that's so daring. But
a beautiful colboat blue color blocked, or you know, a
really rich ruby red phenomenal and still very polished.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
But even a beautiful aubergine blazer.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
You could play with a lovely color on underneath, like
it could be a beautiful blush skivy, or play with
a pink and red stripe, or you could do other
things so you can keep it quite simple but add
some more interesting things, perhaps with the top on underneath.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It's very expensive how wondre.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Okay, let's move on to bougene budget. This is where
we're both bringing something that's more affordable, something that's a
bit more expensive in the color world. Let's have your
budget first. What's your budget item.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Well, my budget item would be bracelets, because if it's
something that you want to just dip your toes into color.
During the school holidays, it was raining at the beach
and I went and bought a beach and bracelet making kit,
and I had my boys who were twelve and ten,
and my nieces all make bracelets and they've made wow,
(18:40):
beautiful ones with their names on and if you put
them with your expensive pearls and your charms. So we
have this new brand called Boy friday In who handmakes
the coolest bracelets. Layer them, layer like a player legend.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
That is a really nice way to bring a little
bit of coloring. If you're feeling like you want to
explore color a little more.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Yeah, you're dipping your toe I like that. And you
could even you know, you could buy some affordably, or
you could make your own, and then you've got the
exact colors that you want.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yes, And it's so fun. The kids love that you're
wearing the bracelets.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
I'm going to do that with my son. That's a
gorgeous idea. Well, my budget is a dress. And I'm
glad you said yellow because I wasn't sure. How are
you going to feel about this? They're calling it cream
on the website. It's not it's yellow, okay. The brand
is fourth and Reckless. You can get it on the
Iconic and it's one hundred and thirty dollars. The top
sort of just like a plain, kind of ribbed singlet,
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and then the skirt is like a Flair Maxi skirt.
It's really beautiful. The reason I like it is because
I'm trying to only buy items that I can get
more wear out of, So going into autumn, I just
love a Maxi skirt with a big knit. So I
would just chuck a knit over the top and pretend
it's a skirt. I was going to say a grain
in it, but now, inspired by you, I might do.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Like a ruby red or fun or a mustard.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
A mustard.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
You look so good in that, I mean amazing at
the moment, an amazing American vintage knit. That's like carrying
it like a roof be beautiful red bean stripe.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Oh yeah, that's joyful.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
So it would look great with the skirt.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, and then you know, as it warms up later
in the year, I just wear it as a dress.
So it's kind of a two for one, and it's
one hundred and thirty dollars. It comes in boring black.
I'm not going to recommend that because we're all about color.
All right, what's your bougie?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Well, my bougie hasn't actually arrived yet, it's due to
arrive any day.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
It's a Cilia Bee dress.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
So she's a Spanish designer and she's my all time
fave designer. And we only get one across in each
size because they're a bit special. Yes, And it's this
multi colored check dress that has like a love heart
panel on the front and it's all paneled and long
and really cool and very ridiculous but very fabulous.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I love it. And now when you say it's on
the way, is this for the store or for you?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I would say both.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
What an amazing job that you could like. Ah, I
think I need to buy that from myself. My bougie
is something I bought last year and I did not
pay full price. So, like you said, like the bracelets,
this is kind of a dipping a toe. They're green sunglasses.
I bought some Botaga Vanetta green sunglasses. There's a website
called I Wear Indecks, And ordinarily when everything's full price,
(21:23):
it's very expensive because fancy brands are but a couple
of times a year they have an amazing sale, so
everyone should jump on and sign up to their EDM
database and wait for the sale. They're back to full
price now eight hundred and ninety five dollars. Never in
my life would I pay that for sunglasses or pretty
much anything. But I got them late last year, I
think December, right before them, im me a Christmas party
(21:44):
because then I wore them and everyone said, oh my god,
I love your sunglasses. And then when I would take
my sonnies down, they'd make my eyes look clearly green,
and I was like, oh, this was such a gamble.
I paid two twenty in the sale, so from eight
ninety five to two twenty, I would never pay roughly
nine hundred dollars. But I think to your point, a sunglass,
a bead, maybe a bag is a really nice way
to experiment and mix and match a bit more than
(22:06):
a full on bright item if you're dipping your toe.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
But isn't it the power of color when you take
down your guys? Cineisis notices your eyes that you spend
every day with it work and that's it.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
And I was like, oh, should I take them? Oh
it's the Christmas party, I'll go on. And now when
I reach for them, I feel joyful because I received
so many lovely compliments, so it wasn't scary after all. Yes,
the Eco Pip your a joy to watch, to talk to,
to shop from. So thank you so much for joining
me on Nothing to Wear.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Thank you for listening to Nothing to Wear, and don't
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to visit Jumbled at the Sonic. It truly is the
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
You're listening to a MoMA Mia podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Mama Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of land and waters
that this podcast is recorded on Hey you bees, it's
me Lee here in your ears, and it's Sunday. And
I don't know about you, but I get the Sunday
scaries sometimes around the washing I need to do and
what am I gonna wear? And wear are my clean undies.
So we're dropping Nothing to Wear here into your feed
now because sometimes it's just about rediscovering and getting creative
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in your own wardrobe. So here's some inspiration.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Whoever said orange is a new pink with seriously deserved
laurels for spraying groundbreaking? Oh my god, you have to
do it.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
You live for fashion. Hello, and welcome to Nothing to Wear,
the podcast that solves fashion problems and levels up your wardrobe.
I'm Lee Campbell and every week I talk to an
expert who helps us work out how to get more
out of the clothes we already own and tells us
what is and isn't worth adding to our wardrobes. Our
guest today is Pip Brett, founder and owner of the
(01:11):
award winning store Jumbled in Orange, New South Wales. What
began as a small homewares store in twenty thirteen has
evolved into a destination concept store. It beautifully merges fashion
homewares and even has a cafe with a Bachelor of
Design background. And as a second generation retailer, Pip has
really carved out a distinctive niche that draws visitors from
(01:33):
all across Australia to her curated world. And today I'm
going to ask Pip all about her love for color
and how those of us who are a little intimidated
by it can inject some into our wardrobes. Pip, firstly,
welcome to the show. And secondly, your background is hands
down the best background I've ever had on a virtual guest.
That's your real home.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
That's my real home. Thanks.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
You need to take a photo and sell that backdrop
on Zoom because oh my god, it's beautiful. Now listen,
we're going to get into your world in orange, jumbled
and color in a moment. But I ask new guests
the same two questions. First, can you describe your style
in three words?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I would say color, playful, and maybe like a snidge ridiculous.
I think when I'm in my store, in my habitat
people go, oh my god, you match so well. But
when I'm at my kids basketball, I do look a
tad ridiculous, but they don't seem to care.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I love that we've not had ridiculous before, and that
is so fun. Now they say that we wear roughly
ten percent of what we've got in our wardrobe ninety
percent of the time, so there's stuff we just love
pull out. I wonder if this is relevant for you,
But anyway, the stuff we reach for more than the
other stuff, what is that stuff for you?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
It's totally relevant for me. I always reach for dresses.
I love dresses that they're one thing I put on.
They're fabulous, they're a bit fun, they might be quite
special dresses. I try not to save things to special occasions.
I try and wear them all the time because life's
the special occasion. But yeah, dresses. There's like Alime Cereia
(03:07):
b palm NEU. So then I go to and I
don't have to think.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
When prepping for this episode, I had Alime in the
back of my head all the time because that's one
of the most colorful brands I know. So I kind
of know you. Now we're going to talk about you,
your store and your love of color. I have to
tell you, I went to Orange. I've only been to
Orange once because it's kind of like four hours out
of Sydney. It's that extra for a long weekend. But
the truth is I wanted to go to Jumble, your
(03:32):
beautiful store, and I went in and it was as
joyful as I'd heard and seen. And I bought towels
and I bought clothes. And when I came back to
the car, I think my toddler at the time was napping,
so my husbands had to stay in the car and
he goes color and I'm not really a colorful person,
but it was just so infectious, the beautiful stock that
you have. So congratulations on such an amazing destination. And
(03:54):
tell me how did Jumble come about and how did
it get to where it is now? It's an institution.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Really, I'm the daughter of a failed minimalist.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
My mother loves color, and colour's kind of been that
continual in my whole life. So clothing store for twenty
five years. He is now an artist and we sell
her work at the shop. I studied fashion at UNI,
but when I finished, I opened a clothing store. So
I started with fashion first and I think that's been
going for about nineteen years. And then Jumbled is where
(04:27):
we introduced homewares because I bought a home and I
realized I loved home weares as much as I loved fashion.
So it's all just under one roof everything that I
love altogether.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Coffee, fashion, home color.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
It started off as a really baby store and it's
grown into a massive, massive store, And I think social
media and online has really been so pivotal in our growth.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And Orange is just a really cool place.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
It's always been cool, but I think every year we're
getting more and more things. So I think Jumbled sort
of been put on the map, which is super exciting.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I reckon that you put Orange on the map with Jumbled.
I've got to say, I really do.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
So.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I loved your three words, and I do want to
elaborate a bit more. Your love of color. So your
mum's a failed minimalist? Is it because you were around
it when you were young? Have you always just been
drawn to it? Have you ever been scared of it?
Because I'm not scared of it. It just feels hard.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
It doesn't feel hard.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
It just feels like a natural innate thing in me
that I just love color. And I don't mean color
for colour's sake, Like I don't. I am looking a
little bit like a rainbow today, But my house is colorful.
But colour is used in a really smart way. There's
such a science to it. Yeah, I feel like colour
comes quite naturally, but I know that for lots of
(05:44):
people it doesn't. So, like, my greatest joy is when
I show people how to wear color, or show them
a color that just like lifts them instantly.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Color is super powerful.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, it's a skill. It's like you can sing or
you can't. I don't know. It's like something that you're
born with. I mean, of course you can learn, but
if you're really passionate about it and you love it,
I think you're naturally good at it. But you're right.
You know, your interiors and everything I see on your
amazing Instagram it's colorful, but it's curated. It's not just
a rainbow vomit. Let's talk about how you help people then,
(06:17):
because I typically stick to neutrals, and you help people
incorporate color. So how do you do that? I mean,
obviously physically in a store it's a bit easier, but
for listeners listening, where do we start?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Even when you're in a store, you don't even need
to try the peace on if you don't want hold
it up to your face and look in the mirror.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Like knitwear.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
At the moment is a really good place to add
some color into your wardrobe. Put it up to your face,
and when you find that color that lifts you, your
whole face changes. And it's super amazing when you find
that thing, and it's not just one color that's going
to suit you. And don't discount a whole color because
(07:01):
someone said, oh, you can never wear yellow, Because I
bet you there's a yellow that you can wear. It
might be a buttery soft yellow, or it might be
a neon, or it might be a mustard.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I so agree.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Different tonal levels that you can explore, and you just.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Don't know if you don't try.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
But sometimes you'd need to let a shop assistent guide you.
And not everyone's created equal, but sometimes just try because
you never know. And when you try that color, you
will get so many compliments.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, I so agree with you because it's a spectrum
obviously for colors. But I've had people say to me
in the past, you look really good in this color
or something about color, and it sticks with you subconsciously,
and then I'm like, why am I avoiding that? And
also my tastes have changed in my twenties. I might
have avoided certain colors and now I try them on
and I feel joyful that I look great. So if you
avoided it before, it's worth giving it another go. And
(07:53):
I think even with your hair color changing, our skin changing,
the season's changing. I think back in the eighties and
nineties being a color consultant, remember they'd rest and you
see it a little bit on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Now back again, bring an autumn or winto Mum was
a fully qualified one of those, and lots of women
will carry those color swatches in their handbag and say, no, no,
I'm not going to try that on. I'm an autumn,
and then I wouldn't try on this beautiful springy green.
But I'm like, give it a go, because I think
it does change over time.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Even if it's not in your little flipbook. If it
brings your joy, wear it.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
One hundred percent one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
But then it gets harder because we've held up something
to our face and it's a top. It's not a dress.
Then we're talking color combinations. You are so good at combinations.
I am. Okay, I get a lot of inspo from Pinterest.
So how do you know when colours quote unquote go together?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I sometimes think the most interesting outfits in also interiors,
so coloring general, are those that are put together that
don't not typically seem to go together. There's a weird
coloring there that shouldn't really work, but it looks so
good together. In talking about the yellow again, like maybe
that buttery soft yellow with a really warm pink magenta
(09:12):
with a hit of.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Read, you know, something like that looks so great.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Or pink and green they used to see pink and
green should never be seen, but it looks so together.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
So I think when things shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Go together and that they do, I think that's really exciting.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
But I also love color blocking.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I love color blocking a whole outfit using the same
tone of color that maybe playing with textures and tones.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Okay, so that's like an all blue outfit, but it's different. Yeah,
textures and slightly different, but kind of all looks uniform
so beautiful. So how do we do that? Say we've
got a skirt at home? We love and it's a color.
Do we take that with a shopping and then try
on tops that we just wouldn't normally with that. I
do have colorful pieces, but putting them together is hard
(09:58):
and more of an online shopper. But I guess I
should go to the shops, take it with me and
see how it is irl.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I think it is so good to go to a shop,
and I love it when people bring the eye and
then at least you know it looks amazing with it
and you can be sure you don't have.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
To go back and return it. Online shopping is great.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
But things that I see online or that I buy
for the store, and then when they come in they
may not look as good.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
They may not look good on me at all.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I say, go back to the shops and give you go,
because you know, there is such a joy in the
adventure of shopping.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I think we've gotten that a lot. At our store.
We work really, really hard.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Some people may see it as quite a traumatic process,
and I get it.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
We've all got hang ups. Everyone does.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
But I love it when people walk out feeling amazing,
looking good, because when you feel amazing in what you're wearing,
you walk differently react to you differently, you talk differently.
It's like a magic there's just something that stars align
and you feel fabulous.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
On that day.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Especially now with the change in denim silhouettes and the
change in season, it's a really good time to explore
different looks, silhouettes and colors for you.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I couldn't agree more. And I think we jump online
and shop because we think it's efficient, but then it
turns up and it's not right, and then you got
to return. And you know, maybe if you can just
carve out some time and like you say, if you're
going to step out if your coume zone with shapes
or with colors, do it irl and then you can
make that decision and see it in real life and
it's probably more efficient that way.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
One hundred and even like yesterday, I just kept this
most amazing American vintage neon green knit and I am
usually small, but I decided to go the medium. I
tried that on and I was like, I love the
feet of that more and I love the color.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I wouldn't have bought the color until I tried it on.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I was like, oh, I have that, But I think
there's a lot to be said for trying on different
sizes as well.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Do you plan your outfits because you always look colorful
and joyful but effortless and just amazing. Do you plan
out your outfits or does your personality peak every morning?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I one hundred percent do not plan my outfit.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I stand at my wardrobe in my beige Brian undies
and decide on the moment, with ten minutes to be
out the door. My wardrobe is full of pieces that
I have tried on and I adore and I must have.
They're not following a trend. They're just pieces that I
(12:44):
just have to have. And my wardrobe looks really fun
and exciting. But I'm definitely dictated by my mood and
I want to go to work dressed like I'm going
to a party because I feel like that makes the
people around me feel good as well, and my staff
do the same thing.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
And I'm also dictated by what's ironed as well.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
I'm not ironing, so I'm like, I would love to
wear that, but I need to iron it.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
So the honesty I am the same. I'm like, oh,
the steamer's downstairs, you're staying in the wardrobe, But I
love that. I think you have a very distinct personal style,
but it's not labored over and that you can just
go to that area and go, I love all of this.
I'm going to check on whatever, and it's very you.
So do you see any differences in purchases and shoppers
(13:29):
across generations when it comes to fashion that come to Jumbled.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Definitely, different ages have different requirements, but I feel like Jumbled,
the fashion that we get in is quite ageless. So
yesterday we have this amazing never Fully Dressed, which is
a label from the UK, this micro mesh dress. And
you would think that mesh would be clingy, but this
(13:54):
mesh dress is amazing. It's six too and eighteen and
so I had a girl who was twenty by it,
and I also had a lady who was in her
seventies by it for a wedding end.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
They both looked fantastic.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Well, now I need to see this dress.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yes, I've got it.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I've got it here. That's amazing to show me.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I wanted to talk to you about color because I
have this same shaped mesh dress into other colourways and
they're both really pretty, but it's this color that works
so beautifully.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
So it's a beautiful corn flower blue with a.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Corally orange poppy print, and it's that contrasting colors of
orange and blue, and it just looks so flattering on
fair skin, on tan skin, gray hair, blonde. This dress
is all about the color of it, and that's why
it's so successful.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
And it just brings joy. Just looking at that fabric,
I feel joy.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Yeah, and it's flattering. It has a beautiful fell sleeve.
But I just love it that a dress like that
spans so many different generations. So when someone from different
generations comes in, it's I just think, whoever the customer
is is really important to live because listening is like
the kindest thing we can do, understanding what people need
(15:14):
and want.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
And it's interesting because that's why you've got so much
return business because I think you know when you're being
sold to and someone's saying that looks great to get
a sale, But when someone really invests in you and
listens to you and goes, Okay, yep, you like this
or you're looking for that, that's the stores I go
back into and I subconsciously avoid some that I've had
the hard cell, so you do that so well. But
that dress also just inspired me because I'm more of
(15:35):
a separates these days, But I'm confused how to put
the colors together. But that could be a beautiful color
combination in the top at a bottom that deep vibrant
orange and a cornflower blue.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
So if you remember on your color wheel as a kid,
they're contrasting across from each other and that's why they
always look so good to Yeah, so maybe you've got
some colorful dresses.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Just look at the colors if you want to make
separates work, which is kind of a bit harder than
a whole dress. And there's your colors at work.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Oh, maybe it's not so scary after all. One more
question before we get into boogie and but yet, some
of our listeners are a lot of our listeners might
work in corporate environments. I mean, I'm an office worker,
but we can wear pretty much anything, and you have
the most joyful workplace on earth. How can we express
our personal style and maybe some color in a.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Corporate world we're talking about earlier. I love color blocking. Yes,
cold blocking in corporate looks extremely exciting and very polished,
and I think it's fun to show who you are
and what you stand for and that you have a
bit of personality in a corporate environment, and I think
fashion is the perfect way to do that, even if
(16:46):
you're in quite a stiff environment. It's fun to play
and it's fun to shock, but it's also it's amazing
what the response will be from that. And I quite
like using color in a symbolic way as well, when
there's perfect times to wear red in corporate.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Environments and green and blue.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
So you can use it in that way as well.
But I think color blocking is just so so cool.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
You're so right, And I hadn't even thought of that.
I was thinking, you know, maybe someone could go from
gray and black to like aubergeine. But yeah, a beautiful
cold I know. I was like, that's so daring. But
a beautiful colboat blue color blocked, or you know, a
really rich ruby red phenomenal and still very polished.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
But even a beautiful aubergine blazer.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
You could play with a lovely color on underneath, like
it could be a beautiful blush skivy, or play with
a pink and red stripe, or you could do other
things so you can keep it quite simple but add
some more interesting things, perhaps with the top on underneath.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It's very expensive how wondre.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Okay, let's move on to bougene budget. This is where
we're both bringing something that's more affordable, something that's a
bit more expensive in the color world. Let's have your
budget first. What's your budget item.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Well, my budget item would be bracelets, because if it's
something that you want to just dip your toes into color.
During the school holidays, it was raining at the beach
and I went and bought a beach and bracelet making kit,
and I had my boys who were twelve and ten,
and my nieces all make bracelets and they've made wow,
(18:40):
beautiful ones with their names on and if you put
them with your expensive pearls and your charms. So we
have this new brand called Boy friday In who handmakes
the coolest bracelets. Layer them, layer like a player legend.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
That is a really nice way to bring a little
bit of coloring. If you're feeling like you want to
explore color a little more.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Yeah, you're dipping your toe I like that. And you
could even you know, you could buy some affordably, or
you could make your own, and then you've got the
exact colors that you want.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yes, And it's so fun. The kids love that you're
wearing the bracelets.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
I'm going to do that with my son. That's a
gorgeous idea. Well, my budget is a dress. And I'm
glad you said yellow because I wasn't sure. How are
you going to feel about this? They're calling it cream
on the website. It's not it's yellow, okay. The brand
is fourth and Reckless. You can get it on the
Iconic and it's one hundred and thirty dollars. The top
sort of just like a plain, kind of ribbed singlet,
(19:35):
and then the skirt is like a Flair Maxi skirt.
It's really beautiful. The reason I like it is because
I'm trying to only buy items that I can get
more wear out of, So going into autumn, I just
love a Maxi skirt with a big knit. So I
would just chuck a knit over the top and pretend
it's a skirt. I was going to say a grain
in it, but now, inspired by you, I might do.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Like a ruby red or fun or a mustard.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
A mustard.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
You look so good in that, I mean amazing at
the moment, an amazing American vintage knit. That's like carrying
it like a roof be beautiful red bean stripe.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Oh yeah, that's joyful.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
So it would look great with the skirt.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, and then you know, as it warms up later
in the year, I just wear it as a dress.
So it's kind of a two for one, and it's
one hundred and thirty dollars. It comes in boring black.
I'm not going to recommend that because we're all about color.
All right, what's your bougie?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Well, my bougie hasn't actually arrived yet, it's due to
arrive any day.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
It's a Cilia Bee dress.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
So she's a Spanish designer and she's my all time
fave designer. And we only get one across in each
size because they're a bit special. Yes, And it's this
multi colored check dress that has like a love heart
panel on the front and it's all paneled and long
and really cool and very ridiculous but very fabulous.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I love it. And now when you say it's on
the way, is this for the store or for you?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I would say both.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
What an amazing job that you could like. Ah, I
think I need to buy that from myself. My bougie
is something I bought last year and I did not
pay full price. So, like you said, like the bracelets,
this is kind of a dipping a toe. They're green sunglasses.
I bought some Botaga Vanetta green sunglasses. There's a website
called I Wear Indecks, And ordinarily when everything's full price,
(21:23):
it's very expensive because fancy brands are but a couple
of times a year they have an amazing sale, so
everyone should jump on and sign up to their EDM
database and wait for the sale. They're back to full
price now eight hundred and ninety five dollars. Never in
my life would I pay that for sunglasses or pretty
much anything. But I got them late last year, I
think December, right before them, im me a Christmas party
(21:44):
because then I wore them and everyone said, oh my god,
I love your sunglasses. And then when I would take
my sonnies down, they'd make my eyes look clearly green,
and I was like, oh, this was such a gamble.
I paid two twenty in the sale, so from eight
ninety five to two twenty, I would never pay roughly
nine hundred dollars. But I think to your point, a sunglass,
a bead, maybe a bag is a really nice way
to experiment and mix and match a bit more than
(22:06):
a full on bright item if you're dipping your toe.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
But isn't it the power of color when you take
down your guys? Cineisis notices your eyes that you spend
every day with it work and that's it.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
And I was like, oh, should I take them? Oh
it's the Christmas party, I'll go on. And now when
I reach for them, I feel joyful because I received
so many lovely compliments, so it wasn't scary after all. Yes,
the Eco Pip your a joy to watch, to talk to,
to shop from. So thank you so much for joining
me on Nothing to Wear.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Thank you for listening to Nothing to Wear, and don't
forget to sign up to the Nothing to Wear newsletter.
There's a link in the show notes, and if you
are ever in Orange in New South Wales, be sure
to visit Jumbled at the Sonic. It truly is the
most amazing retail experience. See you next week. This episode
was produced by Steph McPhee with audio production by Lou Hill.
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