September 10, 2025 • 33 mins
Think perfect-fitting clothes are only for the rich and famous? Think again. This week, Leigh's chatting with celebrity stylist and tailor Hayley Burton, whose worked her magic on Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and Drake to name a few, and she's here to democratise the art of looking expensive.
Hayley's sharing her insider secrets for transforming your existing wardrobe with simple alterations that won't break the bank. She tells us why most of us are getting our pants completely wrong, reveals her foolproof method for finding affordable tailors, and drops her genius customisation hacks using nothing more than Spotlight supplies and iron-on tape.
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Leigh's Budget: Kmart Cuffed Hem Jeans $30
Hayley's Budget: Zara Water-Repellant Trench Coat, ZW Collection $239
Leigh's Boujie: COS Facade Turn-Up Straight-Leg Jeans $175
Hayley's Boujie: Camilla and Marc Evans Classic Trench Coat $900
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
You're listening to a MoMA Mia podcast. Mama Mia acknowledges
the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast
is recorded on Hey you beis. It's Lee here and
I'm popping into your ears, not literally, thankfully, but I'm
here on a Thursday because I want you to listen
to this episode of Nothing to Wear. My guest is
a woman called Haley Burton. You might have heard the
(00:31):
name because she's behind the scenes, but she is the
woman behind so many celebrities amazing looks. She had to
sew Drake personally handstitched fly back up pair of pants.
But beyond that, she has the most incredible tips and
tricks about how to tailor our own clothes. They fit perfectly. Sure,
some might need to be done by an expert, but
(00:51):
you'd be surprised. Most of it we can do at home.
So have a listen and let me know what you think.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Whoever said orange is a new pink with seriously.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Disturbed laurels spraying groundbreaking? Oh my god, you have to
do it. You live for fashion. Hello and welcome to
Nothing to Wear. Casset solves fashion problems and levels up
your wardrobe. I'm Lee Campbell on every week I chat
to an expert who helps us get more out of
the clothes we already own, and today we're doing just that.
(01:21):
So have you ever wondered or wish that you were
fancy and rich enough to have clothes that sit you perfectly?
Have you ever wondered how the celebrities always look so flawless?
And have you ever wanted to sew Drake into a
pair of pants? Well, my expert today has done all
of that. She knows everything, So let me read you this.
CV Hailey Burton has worked with celebrities. She's styled Pink, Rihanna,
(01:46):
Ariana Grande, Drake, Justin Bieber, and Taylor Swift. I mean,
she's way too humble to say all that. That's why
I'm here. So today we're going to talk about what
it's like to style celebrities of that caliber, what goes
on behind the scenes. She also does a lot of
reality TV styling, but more than that, she's a seamstressed
in a tailor, And we're going to talk about us,
the regular people that aren't on stage in leotards. And
(02:08):
she's got some amazing tips and tricks for our existing clothes.
Little tweaks that will make them look a million bucks.
She's got so many wonderful hacks, so let's get into it. Hayley,
welcome to Nothing to Wear. Thank you for having me
very excited to talk about the things they're going to discuss,
because you've got a lot of experience. But first, new
guests have to answer two questions before they're allowed officially
(02:30):
to proceed. Can you describe your style in three words?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I would have to say, today doesn't reflect. I'm normally colorful.
I always wear a lot of color. Today doesn't reflect.
That's the color, the many statement I love, prince, I
love bold prints, color, and probably effortless as well. It's
like something that you can easily throw on because I'm
always working with people and dressing them. Yeah, I kind
of don't put much into myself, so I like an
effortless one.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And is that because you also have to get like
down and pin and like you're actually moving around a
lot much.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You need to be able to get down and not flash, yes, yeah, yeah,
And just something easy and working and you don't have
to think about what you're actually wearing.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yes, you've put it on and you can get to work. Yeah,
all right, there's a theory that rings pretty. So we've
got a wardrobe of clothes. But within that wardrobe, there's
ten percent that we wear the most that we reach
for over and over that I just outried and true.
What would be in your ten percent?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I would say sets. I'm very much a sets person.
Then I don't have to think about actually putting a
look together. Yeah, because it's pretty much top and the bottom. Yeah,
you're ready to go and you look done as well.
I'm short, so if I put on a block print
on the bottom and then I just wear a cup
plane colored top off the top, I get cut in
half because I am so short, so it cuts my proportion.
But if I wear the same thing up and down, yes,
(03:42):
I don't get cut in half, and I look taller
than what's clever half five foot one probably five foot
in a.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Bit talk to centimeters meters one fifty five Okay I'm
on sixty three that hell, but pretty much if I
wear the same color the whole way through, all the
same print the whole way through, I don't feel like
I get cut in half. And is the set usually
pants pants set? Yeah? For work? Mainly pants set? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Then depending on what I'm doing I will do a
skirt and the top.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, because I was going to say, why not a
Maxi dress, But I guess you can't work as easily
in a Maxi.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
But if you get me on holidays and I'm in
a Maxi dress twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Okay, so that's your okay go to on the holidays.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
As well as jumpsuit. I'm a lover of a jumpsuit.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
My god, I'm the lover of the look of a jumpsuit.
But I wee a lot. Oh okay, yeah, that's not practical. No,
And you know when you're just sometimes in a bathroom
and the ones particularly that you have to like fully
disrobe and you're like, I'm naked.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, no, definitely, and I have to tuck my sleeves
in because otherwise your arms go flapping.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Around all they drop in the toilets.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I've done that.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
That happened to me a few weeks ago. Oh no, yeah,
I love the look, but I'm like, okay, is it
a short lunch? How much water do I need? Okay?
I like that. There was it that was quite a
unique ten percent. Most people say jeans. I don't own
a pair of jeans at all, okay, we're going to
get into that. Yeah, okay, We've got a lot to
talk about. Okay, you're a very humble person. We were
talking before we started recording, and you're like, oh no,
(04:58):
just this that excuse me. You have worked with celebrities
like Taylor. I love how there's no surnames written here Taylor, Ariana,
Rihanna Drake. You recently were with Katy Perry on the
Aussie two are Yes, Holy hell, I'm sure there's plenty
of NDAs in place. And for people that don't know
what that is, it's a non disclosure agreement, so thereby
(05:20):
you sign it and then you could never talk about
what happens. But can you pull the curtain back a bit?
What's it like working with names like that?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
There are normal people down to earth. They do expect
a lot and there is a lot of waiting around
for those types of people. Yes, but I think I've
been doing it for so long now that they're just
like normal people. There are like you and I just
got a job to do, just got a job to do.
I get in there, I do what I've got to do,
and I get out pretty much, or you sit there
for fifteen hours, and sometimes.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
You have to wait for people.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
There's a life wait tom when they finally decide to
do a fitting or so, it's funny you.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Say that one of those people on that list. Back
in my Cosmo days when I was doing beauty, I
was flown to interview one of those people, and then
they were too busy before the concept fine waiting around
after the concept they don't want to do it. Then
they flew me to another city and then I ended
up interviewing them two in the morning after that concert.
I mean, it was very glamorous and I had no kids,
and I was like, this is great, but yeah, I
(06:16):
experienced that way.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
But even like it was funny. I didn't know who
Drake was when I worked with him, being naive, not
knowing his celebrities are.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
How long wait, how long ago was this?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Probably when he was here, not the most recent time
he was here. I worked with him this time that
he was here as well, but the previous time probably okay,
five six years ago.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Made okay, and I just was like cool, I like that,
you don't I don't know. I didn't know who he was.
I don't know who the.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Fly broke and I literally this guy comes out to
me goes, hey, love, my fly is broken. What can
you do? So I'm standing there and I'm literally sewing
him in, had my hands down his pad. That sounds
very wrong, and so I didn't. It was like, well,
he goes, what ty you put that needle? And then
literally he left and I was like and they're like,
(07:01):
you do realize that was Drake And like, oh, okay, No.
I came home told all my friends that I worked
and they're.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Like, what do you mean? And oh my god, Yeah
that's good because if that was me old, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And sewed him up for the Yeah, sowed him up
for that concert.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
How did you get out of them? Did he have
to cut him out? No?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Only as we were is one look, oh.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
God, man, have that's so easy. Okay. So, as I've said,
you've been in the industry for years, not saying that
you're old who has experienced, and I hear you're the
go to on all sorts of TV shows as well.
So we've got Maths, Love Island, The Voice Idol. How
did you get into this industry?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I kind of fell into it because I could sew.
I was working for a designer and there was a
stylist that used to come in. This is back in
the day when stylists used to come in loan product
from stores. So yeah, going back a bit, Internet wasn't
as big as it is now.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
My god, that was me and magazines. We had to
go to store to find a thing and then take
it back.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I worked in the store and we used to have
styleist coming all the time. She came in and she
was like, can you babysit my child? Like this is
It's such a random way to get into these jobs.
So when the store or store and she goes, oh,
can you baby sit my child? I've got to go
to an event. She was a stylist for I think
it was Vogue back in the day. She came home
that night and I was stewing on the couch literally staring,
and she's like so and I'm like yeah. She said,
(08:11):
can you come on set tomorrow for a Bonds campaign
with Sarah Murdoch and sew her into a garment. So
I fell into it by doing something completely different, even
though I was working for a designer at the stage. Yeah,
I fell into it because I was at her house
and she saw that I could sew and then I
started assisting her. But the way I fell into TV again,
they needed the same stress on set, and I went
in to actually do all the alterations or do some
(08:33):
custom makes, and then I just woked my way up.
And now I run a lot of the departments for
the TV shows.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Okay, fascinating, And so can you tell me is that
because you know, I guess, particularly reality TV, but even
celebrities aren't all one size fits all. And you get
it a garment and it might not fit there, or
that might be too long, or it needs nipping in here.
And is that often done like the last minute before
you start shooting?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
The thing is so last minute when it comes to
like tailoring a garment. So a lot of the time
you don't fit the artist or the talent until a
day or if not, on the morning of the actual shoot.
So sometimes I'd get caught in just to do alterations.
But now as I do styling and like seamstress, so
I just jump in and I do it myself.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
It's just easier to fix it.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yeah, because it's one process, yes, exactly, And I feel
you understand the body more knowing that you can tailor
the garment to their body because everyone's not a perfect
size eight, which is not the samples are.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, and like I think because yeah, even if you
are an eight, you could be heavier in the bottom
or that is, or broad shoulders. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, so I've worked out as well, like if somebody
is a size twelve, but you want them to fit
in the size eight, you just put a panel in
and try and camouflage the garment, like you.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Just Yeah, if you've got one garment, you've got to
make it work. You can make it work. Yeah, I
think outside the box is the way I look at you.
The way I think that is so cool. Okay, So,
as you've kind of just alluded to, you can pretty
much tailor anything and make a whole look. When you're
sourcing pieces, what are you looking for? Is it fabrics? Cuts?
Styles that can be changed? Like, what can you change? Nothing?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I would never think outside the box. And that's why
I've taught my assistants and my team as well. Whenever
you're shopping, if you see something that you think might
look good on stage, might look good in a shoot, think.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Outside the box.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
If you you're artists, you're dressing, is a size twelve
fourteen by two size eights.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
If you can't get the fourteen, yeah, we can do.
We can alter it, bring it together. We do.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
With performance TV, it's completely different to other reality TV
or a.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Regular person getting dressed. Pretty much.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, we always look for a performance piece. So it
always has to be something that's going to be a
performance piece that looks something like a bit different to
what you normally.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Wear or example like sparkles, Yes, sparkles, but as well
like I could do a dnim like what you've got
on now and we just do a dimonte trim monitor
or we add add some studs or something to some
cool customs. Customs.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
So we do customize a lot. Like on Australian Idol,
everything is pretty much customized, I have to say pretty much.
I would say ninety percent of it. We customize all
custom make rather than just go because online I feel
like what's online it's everywhere. Yeah, it's everywhere. You can't
get individual pieces and it's nothing unique. So it's always
(11:07):
about customizing looks, make them a little bit special, a
little bit elevated.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
So say a listener wanted to either find you, like
a really amazing tailor or try something at home. What's
like Dan, and I can imagine would be easy to
add some sparkles, like I wouldn't want to tailor leather
or unless I mean it's expensive, Like it's hard, and
the problem with leather is they glue the seams down.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
So leather is hard. But you can customize it. Buy
some diamondies, buy some studs. Spotlight has some great pieces
and patches as.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Well, Like I'm so into patches right now.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Are even fringing, and you can always you can double
start it taping on. For one, where underneath a pocket
you've got a pocket.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Flactice if you want to, if you like it, Yeah,
so leather would work.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Or even like you buy a pair of basic pants
and you want to just add a stripe down the
side which is very transparent, there's that iron on tem tape,
like even for one where that you can do that
for one where iron it on, get a piece of ribbon,
get a piece of trimmed it down the side of
a pant.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I've got that tape because I have to take all
my pants up, as I imagine you would too, hen sweat.
Don't own jeans, but I never even thought of doing
something like that.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
That's another option or you could stitch it down. It's
just hard to get in there and stitch it. But
the hem tape saves lives.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
I feel gosh, I just thought of it as hem tape,
Like you really do think outside the box so you
can do something with everything. It depends, I guess, on
your skill set or someone that you know. Okay, so
you're working on a new show or a new artist,
So how does it work from the start. Is it collaborative?
Do you pitch looks to them? Do they get to
tell you what they want? I'm guessing it depends on
(12:46):
the level of their.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Status hands on the talent as well. Like for example,
maths address one of the experts on the panel. She's
come to me saying she wants to go for more
of a tailored look this time around. She'd prefer a
bit of a sleeve, So we work.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
On that regard.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I come back then I present her with a bunch
of looks in a mood board, and then I go
from there and the middle fitting and I always throw
in some random pieces that she wouldn't think to wear,
which is great as well. But then because you've got
the eye and I guess you don't have the maybe
body hang ups or whatever, and you just think, just
try it.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
And oftentimes when they just try.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
It, And that's why I say to everyone, I'm always like,
if you see something on the shelf, always try it on,
Always try.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
It on if you're intrigued.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
And then with music artists, like I work with another
music artist. With her, we get a creative depending on
what she's doing, we get a creative treatment. So I
try and see what colors are in the creative treatment.
And then I do a lot of customs for her
in particular. And is that for like performing on stage?
Forming on stage? But then also she does pieces to camera. Yeah,
a lot of media stuff, So depending on what it is,
a lot of that is styled. But then the performance pieces,
(13:47):
we try and do something different and customize pieces or
make fun scratch.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
It's like you do dress up for adults. Yes, it's fun.
It's lots of fun. Oh my god, I love it. Okay,
And so yeah, it's collaborative, but I guess it depends
on what they're going to be doing. Yes, we always
think we look completely different when we look at videos
or photos of ourselves. Welcome to podcasts, now being Podcasts
are there's some industry tips for getting dressed for the camera.
(14:13):
I mean, look, most listeners are just doing daycare drop
off or going to the office or maybe going to
a lunch. But it's true in that, Like for me,
like my hair is short and dark now, and I
have so many black winter tops, but it just makes
me look like a bubble head. If I've got dark
hair and a black top, I look in photos and go, oh,
you can only just see my face. Like, do you
have tips for when you are perhaps making memories, you're
(14:34):
going to a lunch or a wedding or whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I do always say color, Like I feel color lifts
anyone and if you look good, you feel good inside.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I trill. So I always do say color.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I'm not wearing color today, but normally I am like
a colorful ball, and I always feel really good. And
the amount of comments you get when you hear color,
I feel like I always get whenever I have color on.
Someone always comments on what I'm wearing, no matter what
it is. Yeah, so I feel colors are big.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
It does lift your mood, I'm sure of it. Definitely. Okay,
So yeah, particularly if you're taking photos or whatever it is,
think about that.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
And think about your background as well. So what are
you sitting in if you're sitting in a dark set, yeah,
dark room when you're doing these podcasts or whatever you're doing. Yeah,
just think about that. But then if it's very light,
then you can wear darker tones. To think of the
couch that you're sitting on. That's one thing on maths
we always have to see the couch that they're sitting on.
That that don't blend into the couch and the head
(15:27):
pretty much.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
That's happened to me in the other studio. I mean,
we've got beautiful couches, but I was wearing like a
BEIGEI thing and I just looked like the couch with
the head. Oh okay, that's interesting. Okay. What's the biggest
backstage styling disaster you've seen and how did you fix it?
Was it Drake's fly? I mean that's pretty Yeah, it.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Probably would have been that, yeah, because he was about
to go on.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
And the lot of like malfunctions. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I was over in the UK with Pink and we're
doing a rehearsal. This wasn't live, It was like a
rehearsal and we had a new leotard on her and
it was when she bungee drops from the sky and
the zipper broke on her leotart and it was zipping
from it was from the center back of just above
her bottom to the neck. But it just she went
(16:09):
bungee up down and it justn't and they're like cut
and we literally went no.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
She just kind of came forward.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
But the next thing was she was twisting around, so
she just had to completely she was just bobbling up
and down.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
You're literally like engineering a body seat or something like.
That's the thing.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
And same with her with her mic packs because she
has to sing, her mic packs have to go on
a certain.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Spot on it kind of seal, and because she does
the silks as well, so it's it's working around that
is engineering ful artists are doing. Oh my god, we
occasionally do filming here. I have to have like a
mic pack at the back end lapel and I thought
that was hard. They're like put her on your bra
and I'm like, it's pulling my bra off.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
And then on idol, like they've got two mic packs
because they've got a lapel mic so they can hear them.
And then they got the ears for singing and it's like,
how do we hide them so then they're not seen
and they like they've got a big hump on the.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Back of the head. Sometimes when I watch the Kardashians,
I'm like, oh, they won't want to film the back
because it's just like this thing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
But then some artists like the mic pack out because
then it's like it's real reality.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah, It's like it's there. Yeah, so they prefer to
have it out. Oh my god. Yeah, I bet zippers
are the Bayer lights always zippers? And actually I'm just
have to ask you. I have a bus sippar. Is
it true that you can run a pencil along? It depends?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Just not sliding? I don't know. A lead pencil will
make it. It's like a yeah, dual waxed candle as well. Yeah,
I can't wait wait time and do that. Okay. Aside
from celebrities, which is fascinating, God, I feel like you
could tell some stories. You also style everyday women, yes,
which is refreshing because we don't always want to wear
letards and sequence, but you do all shapes and sizes.
So what are some common stylings we all run into
(17:40):
or that your clients come to you with.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
They want a basic like they want a rotating wardrobe,
so pretty much an interchangeable wardrobe that they can wear
the same pants with different tops, like have ten key pieces,
ten key looks that they so you're basically helping them
find that ten percent. Yeah, pretty much that they can wear,
whether to work, whether to a lunch, kids drop off,
or so forth. So it's a matter of finding funny
your colors as well, like finding what colors are good
(18:03):
for you, whether your warm colors, cool colors, and then
interchanging that interclothing. What part of the is most flattering
where we isolate the waist, it's always good too. With
proportions of body, you do one third two thirds, So
never cut yourself in half, So always one third at
the top.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
So like, for example, high wasted pants, how that count
as the two thirds? Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
So just don't cut yourself in half because then you
look like a blob.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
So it's clever no matter what.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yeah, yeah, something you learn at college. This is going back.
I think I do do something.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I yeah, because I wear a lot of highway wasted.
But then I might do like a when winter a
maxi skit, but with a long knit. That's almost down there.
So that's my two thirds one third.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah, So I try and work on those proportions because however,
your eye then can go there and you look longer,
is the way.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
And when they're trying to, you know, help you find
their colors, then do you kind of try and buy
in the same color family so that you're not trying
to mix like your reds with your green with your
cold bot.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
So then you find the color family and then you
work in tones of that. So if it's a red,
then you go to your pink tones, then you go
to your orangengs. But you stay away from like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Anything that won't match, because then you can't That's my problem.
I love too many things, but then I can't put
it all together. So for the everyday person, tailoring exists too.
We can do things ourselves. We can take them to
a tailor. What can that do for us? You know,
we've got a really great pair of affordable jeans. Is
it worth getting them tailored?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
It is if they're a great gene and they fit you.
Because I find a lot of women have smaller waists
and bigger hips, so we always go upper size in
jeans or in pants, so we have to take in
the waist on the pant. I think it's an investment
rather than wearing a belt and having all that excess
fabric which will make you look thicker through the waist.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yes, when you do, U ease like me all the
time you so, I think it's good.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
And then always your hems, like I feel a hem
on a pant. Like you see all these girls walking
around their pants or either on the ground or the
two shorts, So I feel.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Because we want them to go with heels and flat.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yeah, no, definitely, So it's it's like you can do
the cropped pant then with the heel.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
But I just feel tailoring a garment can change your
life and change the whole way that you actually look.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
And I think also because I've used to be of
the mentality it's affordable garment. I don't want to pay
to then get it tailored, but then to get at
tailored makes it look more expensive, fits me better, I'm
going to wear it more, so it's actually worth it. It's
actually worth it. Then having three pairs of affordable pants
that don't all fit you know, perfectly.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Most of way one and then invest them extra money. Yeah,
garment tailored. Okay, so obviously we can't clone you. I
wish we could. But how do we find a taylor?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
You know there's those ones that's sort of the dry
cleaner that does a bit of tailoring. How do you
know if a Taylor's good or do you just give
it a go? You have to give it a go.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I know that there's all the little tailoring places in
the Westfield shopping centres.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
They're quite expended. I mean it's fine, I will pay
for their expertise, but I had to have some pants
done next day recently.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
I was like, oh, yeah, it's not cheap, but it
does take. But then if you can find, like I've
noticed on Facebook pages on the marketplace, the local Marcrolathes
people have gone, are there any seamstresses in the area,
So you might have mums sitting at home that yes,
to be able to sew.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
My mum had that and on Wednesdays after schools we
would go and drop were to her house. We'd try
things on. Yes, so look on marketplace with a.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Marketplace because there's always somebody that can. So it's very
it's a dying art I feel now but there's somebody
that's sitting at home.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
That's possibly got a baby.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Yeah, and they can tailor it. Like just I know
where my mum lives. I've seen some things on there.
Is there anyone in the area you've changed, Like I
know that the other places are quite expensive. Or there
is a little dry cleaner that does little hands on
the side which is not too expensive. So I would
have a look on market place. Just put a thing
up there saying is there anyone in the area.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
That or like I'm in my local group on Facebook,
I could ask.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
In there because I find too. Another thing is wedding alterations.
I do a lot of wedding alterations because I.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Find they charge a lot to do. They do.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah, I do very random, but I find they charge
ten percent of what the dress costs.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I dress is fifteen thousand dollars. You say anything wedding related,
I look back. I saw a post again on Facebook
other day about the cost of getting the dresses dry cleaned,
and I forgot I did that part and luckily sold it.
But I outrageous.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Ridiculous, No's like, how can you charge fifteen hundred dollars
to get a hem taken up?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
It's yeah, So I if you're paying fifteen thousand dollars
for a dress, you'd want to hope it fit's like
a good exactly. But a lot of these places now
outsource their alterations and they charge ten percent to what
it is.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
So I think it's about shopping around, asking friends where
they've had things. Everyone's having yeah, and then the marketplace.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
And what Still but like, obviously we can have a
pants taken up, but like, say we've got a blazer
that we really like the look of, Like can we
like get that tailored?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
We can't get the tailor, so you can take like
just say it's a boxy blazer, taking the back seams,
which is quite a simple alteration. A lot of problems
people have too is the arms are too long, which they.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Always say it's very hard.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
But if you lift it from the shoulder, don't lift
it where all the detail.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Is, yeah, where the beautiful buttons are. So the buttons.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Everyone tries to lift it from down there and then
you lose your buttons. But if it's a decent blazer
like still Wittery Zara, you'll be able to lift it
from the shoulder. Like I know I've altered some shit
now for one of my client and they leave enough
space in there to lift it from the shoulder right.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
And when you say enough spaces, they're fabric or something.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
There's fabric in there. So they leave a seam allowance
on the side which is like a four centimeter seam
allouance rather than a one point two five seamil out,
so you can take the shoulder out to bring it
rump and the lining all the lining all comes up.
So that's a much cheaper alteration than taking the buttons
off resetting the bags. So I would highly recommend.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
That if there's a blazer that you absolutely love and
like maybe you want it more interest at the ways, yeah, you.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Can definitely take that in through the seams and you
can even take it up. It's a much more expensive
alteration lifting it up if you want it's shorter, But
if you just need a bit of fit in there
because it's too boxy, you take it through the side seams.
There's normally two darts down the center back that you
can just take it in and the smallest little two
centimeters on each side will really zip it in.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Okay. I have a friend who's a tailor that I
go to occasionally, but I don't want to think I
just go there all the time because she gives me
a good price. But the other day I had some
pants done and they were a balloon pant, not a
gene but a balloon pant. But I liked how they
went on me. But of course I have to get up.
So she did like something else, thinking or a little
tuck on the side. Yeah, it was so good. And
then she said, do you wear them really high waisted
(24:17):
or down there? And I was like, I don't know,
and so then she added another extra, just one of
those little clippy things so I can wear it a
bit higher or lower. That's great. So the two I
waited to wear it have known that that was a thing. Yeah.
It's like a little hook. Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean,
and if I wear it a bit whier, you can
see it. But it's like she used a black metal
on black pants. You can't even see it pants. Yeah,
that's such a good. So there's it's not just kidding
(24:37):
about your pants taken up. No, there's so much you
can do. Okay, oh my god, I want you to
go through my wardrobe. So talking on tailoring and starling
regular women, is there like a tip or something that
we all seem to get wrong, or a tailoring trick
or something that we could all benefit from.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
I just think the one that gets everyone is the
waist on pants and then they fall down and then
it's sit appropriately Like God, did you look at my
pants when you walk to night down?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Well they are well yeah, anyway.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
But I just feel that's one thing I just find
women were hippier, I feel, and have bigger.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Bottoms, yes, and a smaller waist waist, and so I
think that's a major one that people can benefit from,
is bring in the waist, even if it's just literally
two darts down the back. It's not like changing like
it's not cinching, and it's literally yeah, pulling it because
you know. Also then I put my phone in my pocket,
my work pass, and then and then my pants off, yes,
not off, but like off from where I want it
to see it exactly. Yes, Okay, I've never had a
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pair of pants that fit probably well one also never
thought to do that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I just think it's like I sometimes I cheat and
I just do two darts down the back because as well,
women fluctuate.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I feel like we fluctuate away. So that's why I
think I'm scared to do it, because I'm like, well,
what if you know I've got endo and the week
for my period, I just want to die. And yeah,
but it's so subtle.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
You can just do two little darts down the back
which take probably someone five seconds, so they shouldn't charge
you a fortune either, and then they can be easily
unpicked for them to come out.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
So that's what I'm going to Literally, I'm gonna see
if I can do it myself. You probably can.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
It's like you can even just fold it over at
the top and just catch it at the top like
two centimeters and that.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Will be enough to hold it up. And if you've
got a long top one like what you've got on nowadays,
the center back of it and then you can just
cut it open. You know, you spend time, you should
do some YouTube to tourist. One more question before bougie
and budget Life's expensive clothes are expensive? Do you in
your journey, either through dressing you know, people on idle
(26:32):
on maths or your real life customers have any recommendations
for looking expensive or looking tailored or just great places
that aren't exorbitantly expensive.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
So I don't like to spend a lot of money
on clothes for yourself. For myself, cool, this is great
And because you can tailor, because I can tailor. And
if I see something, I see how to make it,
and I'm like, I don't think that's worth the.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Price, because you're like, that's not made. I invest in
a good piece. Probably every season I invest in a
good item, but as well, like I feel like your
Zara is doing great, I wouldn't say a great replicas
of design items. Chic is another one that people forget about, Like,
I just stop back into Chic too. They do great.
Tailoring they do is amazing.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
The quality is great and the fit like they make
for like they don't make few typical size that girl.
They make for a girl with hips, make for girl
with boobs. Yeah, so I have into Cuba two now recently.
The quality is good and yeah quality it's great. It
fits my bits. Yeah, definitely those brands. But you don't
need to spend a fortune to look good like I
just like, even I've got friends that shop.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
It came out. I looked at them and I'm like,
where ago came up? Quality may not.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Be as good, but they're still doing the styles. Honestly,
I know for women that like you can't afford it,
You've got kids, you've got school FeAs, you've got food,
and like you say, a lot of expensive brands like
they might they're like size six to fourteen and that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh my god. That makes me feel
so good because I thought you I just assumed you know,
I'm not saying I'm not.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
If I see a piece, I'll invest I call an investment.
I'll invest in a good piece, but.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
You're assessing it from a quality and work.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yes, and if I can get long Jeopardy out of
two if it's not seasonal. Because I hate spending money
on pieces that I'm not going to be able to
wear for a few years, I love it.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I invest in a piece. It's very expensive, how old
you are these percent That brings us to bougie and budget,
(28:37):
because I want you to start with your bougie and
the story behind it. My bougie.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
I bought a Camilla Mark trench. It's not it's expensive,
but it's not. It's expensive for.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
A trench I feel, but it's an investment. It's an investment.
It's timeless.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
It's a black trench that's classic that they've done for
I think the last five years, and I've been seeing
it and I had one from Zara, I had one
from coz but I just love the Camilla and Mark
tnch So I invested in that piece and it's timeless,
and I have to tailor it. No, I went down
to size because it was a good a bit. I
can still fit a jump make sure I could still
(29:12):
fit Nick down underneath it. But I went down a
size because I am shorter.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
So they're quite oversized, quite oversized. They're generous sizing, but
then they've got the oversized look, so you can. Yeah,
so I went down size for that. Well that's it,
Like that's sort of tailing. Ignore the label and just
try them on.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
So I just, yeah, I don't look at with me
when I dress myself, I don't look at the sizes
on things I wear.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
What fits my body. Yeah. May a lot of people
are driven by the label on the clothing, but I
think particularly when you're online shopping, but sometimes you know,
that's why when I can get to the stores, I
love it because I'll grab a few bunch of things
I like oversized, but yeah, I just go oh, and
that's kind of the size is a byproduct, but I try. Yeah,
it's hard on. Okay, my bougie is kind of a tip.
So I've got two options. And this is for my
(29:58):
tall girls because Stacey here at Momomea, she is amazing
and she's tall and she's always saying, Lee, help me
pants help. Whereas short girls we have to get up hands,
second up, but at least all the fit us. So
I've brought two styles of this jeans and a tip there.
I bought a Kmart version. It is the Kmart cuff
hem jean. They're thirty dollars or there's a Cause version
(30:21):
that's much more expensive. But you know how that like
wide leg. They're usually quite an indigo color, and then
it's a cuff like cuffed up so you can take
the hem down. Yes, most of them, I mean, obviously
check before you buy back. Most of them are full
fold of denim, and I've seen my tall friends then
just unpick it. That's perfect. And then they've got long
jeans because oftentimes the long brands are really expensive. And
(30:43):
like we say, you know, we might want to get
the Kmart one and you uncuff it, so I thought
I would share that for my tall girls that it's
kind of a bit of DIY tailoring because it'll still
be full length but cuffed. But then if you well
on I guess at an average hype person, but then if
you just undo it, you've got long pants. That's such
a great idea, that's clean. I thought I should pay
(31:03):
it back because I'm always winging about getting things up.
Take caken up. What's your budget budget?
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I went for a trench because I.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Was thought, oh, you've got your black teach.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
It got my black one. But then there was a
great one at Zara and it was on sale. It
was like one hundred and nineteen dollars. I think it's
still online now. But that one I had to take
the HEM up, so I didn't mind because I hadn't
invested so much money in it. Yeah, I was quite
happy to take the hem up because it did come
to the ground.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
So people that aren't super tall can even hem coats
like I never thought of.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Can definitely, and you can like you can do it properly,
like you can get a proper tailor to do it.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
But then if it's you can just turn it up and.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Literally slip stitch it the whole way, like nobody sees
the inside of the garden. Everyone if you can do
a basic stitch, you can sew a button on, you
can do a basic m just flip.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Everyone can learn to do Everyone can do a basic stitch.
So I did it properly, but I have in the past.
You've done a quick version. Oh took up a trench. Yeah,
that's also clever. All right. My budget again is kind
of a bit general, but it's something that I did
the other day, which I loved. I have a bunch
of boxy blazers and I I mean, I have a
(32:06):
bunch of everything. But then I'm really into my barrel
eggs at the moment, and I put on a boxy
blazer and I was like, oh, this is a bit
much too much. I was overwhem by too much fabric.
I grabbed one of my husband's tie so it was
a navy blazer. I grabbed one of my husband's ties. Sorry, honey,
you're probably stalking for it, and I kind of did
a cool tie thing and cinched it in. That's such
a great It looks so cool. So now I've taken
(32:28):
his burgundy he's black. He doesn't have a beige tie.
I guess beige is not that popular. But go to
a thrift store and buy men's ties if you want
to sinch something in. I mean I could have used
a regular I guess leather belt. But also I just
wanted to I wanted to stop it exactly where I
wanted to stop, and I wanted it to not make
too much statement. So because it was a fabric h
it kind of just didn't really you couldn't see it much,
(32:50):
but it gave me a good sinch. Oh, that's such
a good idea, and that's poper color if you've got Yeah,
well I was thinking, well, I mean, I'm scared of color,
but if I could do a cool contrast, like I
was thinking, I could do the navy tie with a
black blazer, Yeah, that would be great, risky and it's
a nice You've got the sin edge and then you've
got the white es and he had a few of
the needed ones. And obviously fashion at the moment a
lot of women are wearing ties, but that's another way
(33:11):
to wear it. It's just kind of sinch something in,
especially if it's a blazer or something that's a bit
too oversized with the proportions. Do you like my tailoring?
I like that idea. Thank you my hiring without Yeah,
definitely next time you need to do dregs. If I'm there,
you're phenomenal. Congratulations on all your success and all your skills.
Like if I were you, I'd be like AI sucked
(33:32):
in everyone. It's gonna take everyone's jobs, but they can't
take your flow. They can't take man. Thank you so
much for listening or watching. If you're on YouTube and
head over to Instagram, our handle is nothing to wear
pod and let us know what you think. See you
next week.
You're listening to a MoMA Mia podcast. Mama Mia acknowledges
the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast
is recorded on Hey you beis. It's Lee here and
I'm popping into your ears, not literally, thankfully, but I'm
here on a Thursday because I want you to listen
to this episode of Nothing to Wear. My guest is
a woman called Haley Burton. You might have heard the
(00:31):
name because she's behind the scenes, but she is the
woman behind so many celebrities amazing looks. She had to
sew Drake personally handstitched fly back up pair of pants.
But beyond that, she has the most incredible tips and
tricks about how to tailor our own clothes. They fit perfectly. Sure,
some might need to be done by an expert, but
(00:51):
you'd be surprised. Most of it we can do at home.
So have a listen and let me know what you think.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Whoever said orange is a new pink with seriously.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Disturbed laurels spraying groundbreaking? Oh my god, you have to
do it. You live for fashion. Hello and welcome to
Nothing to Wear. Casset solves fashion problems and levels up
your wardrobe. I'm Lee Campbell on every week I chat
to an expert who helps us get more out of
the clothes we already own, and today we're doing just that.
(01:21):
So have you ever wondered or wish that you were
fancy and rich enough to have clothes that sit you perfectly?
Have you ever wondered how the celebrities always look so flawless?
And have you ever wanted to sew Drake into a
pair of pants? Well, my expert today has done all
of that. She knows everything, So let me read you this.
CV Hailey Burton has worked with celebrities. She's styled Pink, Rihanna,
(01:46):
Ariana Grande, Drake, Justin Bieber, and Taylor Swift. I mean,
she's way too humble to say all that. That's why
I'm here. So today we're going to talk about what
it's like to style celebrities of that caliber, what goes
on behind the scenes. She also does a lot of
reality TV styling, but more than that, she's a seamstressed
in a tailor, And we're going to talk about us,
the regular people that aren't on stage in leotards. And
(02:08):
she's got some amazing tips and tricks for our existing clothes.
Little tweaks that will make them look a million bucks.
She's got so many wonderful hacks, so let's get into it. Hayley,
welcome to Nothing to Wear. Thank you for having me
very excited to talk about the things they're going to discuss,
because you've got a lot of experience. But first, new
guests have to answer two questions before they're allowed officially
(02:30):
to proceed. Can you describe your style in three words?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I would have to say, today doesn't reflect. I'm normally colorful.
I always wear a lot of color. Today doesn't reflect.
That's the color, the many statement I love, prince, I
love bold prints, color, and probably effortless as well. It's
like something that you can easily throw on because I'm
always working with people and dressing them. Yeah, I kind
of don't put much into myself, so I like an
effortless one.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And is that because you also have to get like
down and pin and like you're actually moving around a
lot much.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You need to be able to get down and not flash, yes, yeah, yeah,
And just something easy and working and you don't have
to think about what you're actually wearing.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yes, you've put it on and you can get to work. Yeah,
all right, there's a theory that rings pretty. So we've
got a wardrobe of clothes. But within that wardrobe, there's
ten percent that we wear the most that we reach
for over and over that I just outried and true.
What would be in your ten percent?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I would say sets. I'm very much a sets person.
Then I don't have to think about actually putting a
look together. Yeah, because it's pretty much top and the bottom. Yeah,
you're ready to go and you look done as well.
I'm short, so if I put on a block print
on the bottom and then I just wear a cup
plane colored top off the top, I get cut in
half because I am so short, so it cuts my proportion.
But if I wear the same thing up and down, yes,
(03:42):
I don't get cut in half, and I look taller
than what's clever half five foot one probably five foot
in a.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Bit talk to centimeters meters one fifty five Okay I'm
on sixty three that hell, but pretty much if I
wear the same color the whole way through, all the
same print the whole way through, I don't feel like
I get cut in half. And is the set usually
pants pants set? Yeah? For work? Mainly pants set? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Then depending on what I'm doing I will do a
skirt and the top.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, because I was going to say, why not a
Maxi dress, But I guess you can't work as easily
in a Maxi.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
But if you get me on holidays and I'm in
a Maxi dress twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Okay, so that's your okay go to on the holidays.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
As well as jumpsuit. I'm a lover of a jumpsuit.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
My god, I'm the lover of the look of a jumpsuit.
But I wee a lot. Oh okay, yeah, that's not practical. No,
And you know when you're just sometimes in a bathroom
and the ones particularly that you have to like fully
disrobe and you're like, I'm naked.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, no, definitely, and I have to tuck my sleeves
in because otherwise your arms go flapping.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Around all they drop in the toilets.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I've done that.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
That happened to me a few weeks ago. Oh no, yeah,
I love the look, but I'm like, okay, is it
a short lunch? How much water do I need? Okay?
I like that. There was it that was quite a
unique ten percent. Most people say jeans. I don't own
a pair of jeans at all, okay, we're going to
get into that. Yeah, okay, We've got a lot to
talk about. Okay, you're a very humble person. We were
talking before we started recording, and you're like, oh no,
(04:58):
just this that excuse me. You have worked with celebrities
like Taylor. I love how there's no surnames written here Taylor, Ariana,
Rihanna Drake. You recently were with Katy Perry on the
Aussie two are Yes, Holy hell, I'm sure there's plenty
of NDAs in place. And for people that don't know
what that is, it's a non disclosure agreement, so thereby
(05:20):
you sign it and then you could never talk about
what happens. But can you pull the curtain back a bit?
What's it like working with names like that?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
There are normal people down to earth. They do expect
a lot and there is a lot of waiting around
for those types of people. Yes, but I think I've
been doing it for so long now that they're just
like normal people. There are like you and I just
got a job to do, just got a job to do.
I get in there, I do what I've got to do,
and I get out pretty much, or you sit there
for fifteen hours, and sometimes.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
You have to wait for people.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
There's a life wait tom when they finally decide to
do a fitting or so, it's funny you.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Say that one of those people on that list. Back
in my Cosmo days when I was doing beauty, I
was flown to interview one of those people, and then
they were too busy before the concept fine waiting around
after the concept they don't want to do it. Then
they flew me to another city and then I ended
up interviewing them two in the morning after that concert.
I mean, it was very glamorous and I had no kids,
and I was like, this is great, but yeah, I
(06:16):
experienced that way.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
But even like it was funny. I didn't know who
Drake was when I worked with him, being naive, not
knowing his celebrities are.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
How long wait, how long ago was this?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Probably when he was here, not the most recent time
he was here. I worked with him this time that
he was here as well, but the previous time probably okay,
five six years ago.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Made okay, and I just was like cool, I like that,
you don't I don't know. I didn't know who he was.
I don't know who the.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Fly broke and I literally this guy comes out to
me goes, hey, love, my fly is broken. What can
you do? So I'm standing there and I'm literally sewing
him in, had my hands down his pad. That sounds
very wrong, and so I didn't. It was like, well,
he goes, what ty you put that needle? And then
literally he left and I was like and they're like,
(07:01):
you do realize that was Drake And like, oh, okay, No.
I came home told all my friends that I worked
and they're.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Like, what do you mean? And oh my god, Yeah
that's good because if that was me old, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And sewed him up for the Yeah, sowed him up
for that concert.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
How did you get out of them? Did he have
to cut him out? No?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Only as we were is one look, oh.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
God, man, have that's so easy. Okay. So, as I've said,
you've been in the industry for years, not saying that
you're old who has experienced, and I hear you're the
go to on all sorts of TV shows as well.
So we've got Maths, Love Island, The Voice Idol. How
did you get into this industry?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I kind of fell into it because I could sew.
I was working for a designer and there was a
stylist that used to come in. This is back in
the day when stylists used to come in loan product
from stores. So yeah, going back a bit, Internet wasn't
as big as it is now.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
My god, that was me and magazines. We had to
go to store to find a thing and then take
it back.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I worked in the store and we used to have
styleist coming all the time. She came in and she
was like, can you babysit my child? Like this is
It's such a random way to get into these jobs.
So when the store or store and she goes, oh,
can you baby sit my child? I've got to go
to an event. She was a stylist for I think
it was Vogue back in the day. She came home
that night and I was stewing on the couch literally staring,
and she's like so and I'm like yeah. She said,
(08:11):
can you come on set tomorrow for a Bonds campaign
with Sarah Murdoch and sew her into a garment. So
I fell into it by doing something completely different, even
though I was working for a designer at the stage. Yeah,
I fell into it because I was at her house
and she saw that I could sew and then I
started assisting her. But the way I fell into TV again,
they needed the same stress on set, and I went
in to actually do all the alterations or do some
(08:33):
custom makes, and then I just woked my way up.
And now I run a lot of the departments for
the TV shows.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Okay, fascinating, And so can you tell me is that
because you know, I guess, particularly reality TV, but even
celebrities aren't all one size fits all. And you get
it a garment and it might not fit there, or
that might be too long, or it needs nipping in here.
And is that often done like the last minute before
you start shooting?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
The thing is so last minute when it comes to
like tailoring a garment. So a lot of the time
you don't fit the artist or the talent until a
day or if not, on the morning of the actual shoot.
So sometimes I'd get caught in just to do alterations.
But now as I do styling and like seamstress, so
I just jump in and I do it myself.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
It's just easier to fix it.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yeah, because it's one process, yes, exactly, And I feel
you understand the body more knowing that you can tailor
the garment to their body because everyone's not a perfect
size eight, which is not the samples are.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, and like I think because yeah, even if you
are an eight, you could be heavier in the bottom
or that is, or broad shoulders. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, so I've worked out as well, like if somebody
is a size twelve, but you want them to fit
in the size eight, you just put a panel in
and try and camouflage the garment, like you.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Just Yeah, if you've got one garment, you've got to
make it work. You can make it work. Yeah, I
think outside the box is the way I look at you.
The way I think that is so cool. Okay, So,
as you've kind of just alluded to, you can pretty
much tailor anything and make a whole look. When you're
sourcing pieces, what are you looking for? Is it fabrics? Cuts?
Styles that can be changed? Like, what can you change? Nothing?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I would never think outside the box. And that's why
I've taught my assistants and my team as well. Whenever
you're shopping, if you see something that you think might
look good on stage, might look good in a shoot, think.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Outside the box.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
If you you're artists, you're dressing, is a size twelve
fourteen by two size eights.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
If you can't get the fourteen, yeah, we can do.
We can alter it, bring it together. We do.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
With performance TV, it's completely different to other reality TV
or a.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Regular person getting dressed. Pretty much.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, we always look for a performance piece. So it
always has to be something that's going to be a
performance piece that looks something like a bit different to
what you normally.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Wear or example like sparkles, Yes, sparkles, but as well
like I could do a dnim like what you've got
on now and we just do a dimonte trim monitor
or we add add some studs or something to some
cool customs. Customs.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
So we do customize a lot. Like on Australian Idol,
everything is pretty much customized, I have to say pretty much.
I would say ninety percent of it. We customize all
custom make rather than just go because online I feel
like what's online it's everywhere. Yeah, it's everywhere. You can't
get individual pieces and it's nothing unique. So it's always
(11:07):
about customizing looks, make them a little bit special, a
little bit elevated.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
So say a listener wanted to either find you, like
a really amazing tailor or try something at home. What's
like Dan, and I can imagine would be easy to
add some sparkles, like I wouldn't want to tailor leather
or unless I mean it's expensive, Like it's hard, and
the problem with leather is they glue the seams down.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
So leather is hard. But you can customize it. Buy
some diamondies, buy some studs. Spotlight has some great pieces
and patches as.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Well, Like I'm so into patches right now.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Are even fringing, and you can always you can double
start it taping on. For one, where underneath a pocket
you've got a pocket.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Flactice if you want to, if you like it, Yeah,
so leather would work.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Or even like you buy a pair of basic pants
and you want to just add a stripe down the
side which is very transparent, there's that iron on tem tape,
like even for one where that you can do that
for one where iron it on, get a piece of ribbon,
get a piece of trimmed it down the side of
a pant.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I've got that tape because I have to take all
my pants up, as I imagine you would too, hen sweat.
Don't own jeans, but I never even thought of doing
something like that.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
That's another option or you could stitch it down. It's
just hard to get in there and stitch it. But
the hem tape saves lives.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
I feel gosh, I just thought of it as hem tape,
Like you really do think outside the box so you
can do something with everything. It depends, I guess, on
your skill set or someone that you know. Okay, so
you're working on a new show or a new artist,
So how does it work from the start. Is it collaborative?
Do you pitch looks to them? Do they get to
tell you what they want? I'm guessing it depends on
(12:46):
the level of their.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Status hands on the talent as well. Like for example,
maths address one of the experts on the panel. She's
come to me saying she wants to go for more
of a tailored look this time around. She'd prefer a
bit of a sleeve, So we work.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
On that regard.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I come back then I present her with a bunch
of looks in a mood board, and then I go
from there and the middle fitting and I always throw
in some random pieces that she wouldn't think to wear,
which is great as well. But then because you've got
the eye and I guess you don't have the maybe
body hang ups or whatever, and you just think, just
try it.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
And oftentimes when they just try.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
It, And that's why I say to everyone, I'm always like,
if you see something on the shelf, always try it on,
Always try.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
It on if you're intrigued.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
And then with music artists, like I work with another
music artist. With her, we get a creative depending on
what she's doing, we get a creative treatment. So I
try and see what colors are in the creative treatment.
And then I do a lot of customs for her
in particular. And is that for like performing on stage?
Forming on stage? But then also she does pieces to camera. Yeah,
a lot of media stuff, So depending on what it is,
a lot of that is styled. But then the performance pieces,
(13:47):
we try and do something different and customize pieces or
make fun scratch.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
It's like you do dress up for adults. Yes, it's fun.
It's lots of fun. Oh my god, I love it. Okay,
And so yeah, it's collaborative, but I guess it depends
on what they're going to be doing. Yes, we always
think we look completely different when we look at videos
or photos of ourselves. Welcome to podcasts, now being Podcasts
are there's some industry tips for getting dressed for the camera.
(14:13):
I mean, look, most listeners are just doing daycare drop
off or going to the office or maybe going to
a lunch. But it's true in that, Like for me,
like my hair is short and dark now, and I
have so many black winter tops, but it just makes
me look like a bubble head. If I've got dark
hair and a black top, I look in photos and go, oh,
you can only just see my face. Like, do you
have tips for when you are perhaps making memories, you're
(14:34):
going to a lunch or a wedding or whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I do always say color, Like I feel color lifts
anyone and if you look good, you feel good inside.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I trill. So I always do say color.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I'm not wearing color today, but normally I am like
a colorful ball, and I always feel really good. And
the amount of comments you get when you hear color,
I feel like I always get whenever I have color on.
Someone always comments on what I'm wearing, no matter what
it is. Yeah, so I feel colors are big.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
It does lift your mood, I'm sure of it. Definitely. Okay,
So yeah, particularly if you're taking photos or whatever it is,
think about that.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
And think about your background as well. So what are
you sitting in if you're sitting in a dark set, yeah,
dark room when you're doing these podcasts or whatever you're doing. Yeah,
just think about that. But then if it's very light,
then you can wear darker tones. To think of the
couch that you're sitting on. That's one thing on maths
we always have to see the couch that they're sitting on.
That that don't blend into the couch and the head
(15:27):
pretty much.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
That's happened to me in the other studio. I mean,
we've got beautiful couches, but I was wearing like a
BEIGEI thing and I just looked like the couch with
the head. Oh okay, that's interesting. Okay. What's the biggest
backstage styling disaster you've seen and how did you fix it?
Was it Drake's fly? I mean that's pretty Yeah, it.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Probably would have been that, yeah, because he was about
to go on.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
And the lot of like malfunctions. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I was over in the UK with Pink and we're
doing a rehearsal. This wasn't live, It was like a
rehearsal and we had a new leotard on her and
it was when she bungee drops from the sky and
the zipper broke on her leotart and it was zipping
from it was from the center back of just above
her bottom to the neck. But it just she went
(16:09):
bungee up down and it justn't and they're like cut
and we literally went no.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
She just kind of came forward.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
But the next thing was she was twisting around, so
she just had to completely she was just bobbling up
and down.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
You're literally like engineering a body seat or something like.
That's the thing.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
And same with her with her mic packs because she
has to sing, her mic packs have to go on
a certain.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Spot on it kind of seal, and because she does
the silks as well, so it's it's working around that
is engineering ful artists are doing. Oh my god, we
occasionally do filming here. I have to have like a
mic pack at the back end lapel and I thought
that was hard. They're like put her on your bra
and I'm like, it's pulling my bra off.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
And then on idol, like they've got two mic packs
because they've got a lapel mic so they can hear them.
And then they got the ears for singing and it's like,
how do we hide them so then they're not seen
and they like they've got a big hump on the.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Back of the head. Sometimes when I watch the Kardashians,
I'm like, oh, they won't want to film the back
because it's just like this thing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
But then some artists like the mic pack out because
then it's like it's real reality.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah, It's like it's there. Yeah, so they prefer to
have it out. Oh my god. Yeah, I bet zippers
are the Bayer lights always zippers? And actually I'm just
have to ask you. I have a bus sippar. Is
it true that you can run a pencil along? It depends?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Just not sliding? I don't know. A lead pencil will
make it. It's like a yeah, dual waxed candle as well. Yeah,
I can't wait wait time and do that. Okay. Aside
from celebrities, which is fascinating, God, I feel like you
could tell some stories. You also style everyday women, yes,
which is refreshing because we don't always want to wear
letards and sequence, but you do all shapes and sizes.
So what are some common stylings we all run into
(17:40):
or that your clients come to you with.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
They want a basic like they want a rotating wardrobe,
so pretty much an interchangeable wardrobe that they can wear
the same pants with different tops, like have ten key pieces,
ten key looks that they so you're basically helping them
find that ten percent. Yeah, pretty much that they can wear,
whether to work, whether to a lunch, kids drop off,
or so forth. So it's a matter of finding funny
your colors as well, like finding what colors are good
(18:03):
for you, whether your warm colors, cool colors, and then
interchanging that interclothing. What part of the is most flattering
where we isolate the waist, it's always good too. With
proportions of body, you do one third two thirds, So
never cut yourself in half, So always one third at
the top.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
So like, for example, high wasted pants, how that count
as the two thirds? Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
So just don't cut yourself in half because then you
look like a blob.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
So it's clever no matter what.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yeah, yeah, something you learn at college. This is going back.
I think I do do something.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I yeah, because I wear a lot of highway wasted.
But then I might do like a when winter a
maxi skit, but with a long knit. That's almost down there.
So that's my two thirds one third.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah, So I try and work on those proportions because however,
your eye then can go there and you look longer,
is the way.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
And when they're trying to, you know, help you find
their colors, then do you kind of try and buy
in the same color family so that you're not trying
to mix like your reds with your green with your
cold bot.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
So then you find the color family and then you
work in tones of that. So if it's a red,
then you go to your pink tones, then you go
to your orangengs. But you stay away from like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Anything that won't match, because then you can't That's my problem.
I love too many things, but then I can't put
it all together. So for the everyday person, tailoring exists too.
We can do things ourselves. We can take them to
a tailor. What can that do for us? You know,
we've got a really great pair of affordable jeans. Is
it worth getting them tailored?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
It is if they're a great gene and they fit you.
Because I find a lot of women have smaller waists
and bigger hips, so we always go upper size in
jeans or in pants, so we have to take in
the waist on the pant. I think it's an investment
rather than wearing a belt and having all that excess
fabric which will make you look thicker through the waist.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yes, when you do, U ease like me all the
time you so, I think it's good.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
And then always your hems, like I feel a hem
on a pant. Like you see all these girls walking
around their pants or either on the ground or the
two shorts, So I feel.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Because we want them to go with heels and flat.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yeah, no, definitely, So it's it's like you can do
the cropped pant then with the heel.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
But I just feel tailoring a garment can change your
life and change the whole way that you actually look.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
And I think also because I've used to be of
the mentality it's affordable garment. I don't want to pay
to then get it tailored, but then to get at
tailored makes it look more expensive, fits me better, I'm
going to wear it more, so it's actually worth it. It's
actually worth it. Then having three pairs of affordable pants
that don't all fit you know, perfectly.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Most of way one and then invest them extra money. Yeah,
garment tailored. Okay, so obviously we can't clone you. I
wish we could. But how do we find a taylor?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
You know there's those ones that's sort of the dry
cleaner that does a bit of tailoring. How do you
know if a Taylor's good or do you just give
it a go? You have to give it a go.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I know that there's all the little tailoring places in
the Westfield shopping centres.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
They're quite expended. I mean it's fine, I will pay
for their expertise, but I had to have some pants
done next day recently.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
I was like, oh, yeah, it's not cheap, but it
does take. But then if you can find, like I've
noticed on Facebook pages on the marketplace, the local Marcrolathes
people have gone, are there any seamstresses in the area,
So you might have mums sitting at home that yes,
to be able to sew.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
My mum had that and on Wednesdays after schools we
would go and drop were to her house. We'd try
things on. Yes, so look on marketplace with a.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Marketplace because there's always somebody that can. So it's very
it's a dying art I feel now but there's somebody
that's sitting at home.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
That's possibly got a baby.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Yeah, and they can tailor it. Like just I know
where my mum lives. I've seen some things on there.
Is there anyone in the area you've changed, Like I
know that the other places are quite expensive. Or there
is a little dry cleaner that does little hands on
the side which is not too expensive. So I would
have a look on market place. Just put a thing
up there saying is there anyone in the area.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
That or like I'm in my local group on Facebook,
I could ask.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
In there because I find too. Another thing is wedding alterations.
I do a lot of wedding alterations because I.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Find they charge a lot to do. They do.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah, I do very random, but I find they charge
ten percent of what the dress costs.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I dress is fifteen thousand dollars. You say anything wedding related,
I look back. I saw a post again on Facebook
other day about the cost of getting the dresses dry cleaned,
and I forgot I did that part and luckily sold it.
But I outrageous.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Ridiculous, No's like, how can you charge fifteen hundred dollars
to get a hem taken up?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
It's yeah, So I if you're paying fifteen thousand dollars
for a dress, you'd want to hope it fit's like
a good exactly. But a lot of these places now
outsource their alterations and they charge ten percent to what
it is.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
So I think it's about shopping around, asking friends where
they've had things. Everyone's having yeah, and then the marketplace.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
And what Still but like, obviously we can have a
pants taken up, but like, say we've got a blazer
that we really like the look of, Like can we
like get that tailored?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
We can't get the tailor, so you can take like
just say it's a boxy blazer, taking the back seams,
which is quite a simple alteration. A lot of problems
people have too is the arms are too long, which they.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Always say it's very hard.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
But if you lift it from the shoulder, don't lift
it where all the detail.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Is, yeah, where the beautiful buttons are. So the buttons.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Everyone tries to lift it from down there and then
you lose your buttons. But if it's a decent blazer
like still Wittery Zara, you'll be able to lift it
from the shoulder. Like I know I've altered some shit
now for one of my client and they leave enough
space in there to lift it from the shoulder right.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
And when you say enough spaces, they're fabric or something.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
There's fabric in there. So they leave a seam allowance
on the side which is like a four centimeter seam
allouance rather than a one point two five seamil out,
so you can take the shoulder out to bring it
rump and the lining all the lining all comes up.
So that's a much cheaper alteration than taking the buttons
off resetting the bags. So I would highly recommend.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
That if there's a blazer that you absolutely love and
like maybe you want it more interest at the ways, yeah, you.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Can definitely take that in through the seams and you
can even take it up. It's a much more expensive
alteration lifting it up if you want it's shorter, But
if you just need a bit of fit in there
because it's too boxy, you take it through the side seams.
There's normally two darts down the center back that you
can just take it in and the smallest little two
centimeters on each side will really zip it in.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Okay. I have a friend who's a tailor that I
go to occasionally, but I don't want to think I
just go there all the time because she gives me
a good price. But the other day I had some
pants done and they were a balloon pant, not a
gene but a balloon pant. But I liked how they
went on me. But of course I have to get up.
So she did like something else, thinking or a little
tuck on the side. Yeah, it was so good. And
then she said, do you wear them really high waisted
(24:17):
or down there? And I was like, I don't know,
and so then she added another extra, just one of
those little clippy things so I can wear it a
bit higher or lower. That's great. So the two I
waited to wear it have known that that was a thing. Yeah.
It's like a little hook. Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean,
and if I wear it a bit whier, you can
see it. But it's like she used a black metal
on black pants. You can't even see it pants. Yeah,
that's such a good. So there's it's not just kidding
(24:37):
about your pants taken up. No, there's so much you
can do. Okay, oh my god, I want you to
go through my wardrobe. So talking on tailoring and starling
regular women, is there like a tip or something that
we all seem to get wrong, or a tailoring trick
or something that we could all benefit from.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
I just think the one that gets everyone is the
waist on pants and then they fall down and then
it's sit appropriately Like God, did you look at my
pants when you walk to night down?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Well they are well yeah, anyway.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
But I just feel that's one thing I just find
women were hippier, I feel, and have bigger.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Bottoms, yes, and a smaller waist waist, and so I
think that's a major one that people can benefit from,
is bring in the waist, even if it's just literally
two darts down the back. It's not like changing like
it's not cinching, and it's literally yeah, pulling it because
you know. Also then I put my phone in my pocket,
my work pass, and then and then my pants off, yes,
not off, but like off from where I want it
to see it exactly. Yes, Okay, I've never had a
(25:33):
pair of pants that fit probably well one also never
thought to do that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I just think it's like I sometimes I cheat and
I just do two darts down the back because as well,
women fluctuate.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I feel like we fluctuate away. So that's why I
think I'm scared to do it, because I'm like, well,
what if you know I've got endo and the week
for my period, I just want to die. And yeah,
but it's so subtle.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
You can just do two little darts down the back
which take probably someone five seconds, so they shouldn't charge
you a fortune either, and then they can be easily
unpicked for them to come out.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
So that's what I'm going to Literally, I'm gonna see
if I can do it myself. You probably can.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
It's like you can even just fold it over at
the top and just catch it at the top like
two centimeters and that.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Will be enough to hold it up. And if you've
got a long top one like what you've got on nowadays,
the center back of it and then you can just
cut it open. You know, you spend time, you should
do some YouTube to tourist. One more question before bougie
and budget Life's expensive clothes are expensive? Do you in
your journey, either through dressing you know, people on idle
(26:32):
on maths or your real life customers have any recommendations
for looking expensive or looking tailored or just great places
that aren't exorbitantly expensive.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
So I don't like to spend a lot of money
on clothes for yourself. For myself, cool, this is great
And because you can tailor, because I can tailor. And
if I see something, I see how to make it,
and I'm like, I don't think that's worth the.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Price, because you're like, that's not made. I invest in
a good piece. Probably every season I invest in a
good item, but as well, like I feel like your
Zara is doing great, I wouldn't say a great replicas
of design items. Chic is another one that people forget about, Like,
I just stop back into Chic too. They do great.
Tailoring they do is amazing.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
The quality is great and the fit like they make
for like they don't make few typical size that girl.
They make for a girl with hips, make for girl
with boobs. Yeah, so I have into Cuba two now recently.
The quality is good and yeah quality it's great. It
fits my bits. Yeah, definitely those brands. But you don't
need to spend a fortune to look good like I
just like, even I've got friends that shop.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
It came out. I looked at them and I'm like,
where ago came up? Quality may not.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Be as good, but they're still doing the styles. Honestly,
I know for women that like you can't afford it,
You've got kids, you've got school FeAs, you've got food,
and like you say, a lot of expensive brands like
they might they're like size six to fourteen and that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh my god. That makes me feel
so good because I thought you I just assumed you know,
I'm not saying I'm not.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
If I see a piece, I'll invest I call an investment.
I'll invest in a good piece, but.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
You're assessing it from a quality and work.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yes, and if I can get long Jeopardy out of
two if it's not seasonal. Because I hate spending money
on pieces that I'm not going to be able to
wear for a few years, I love it.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I invest in a piece. It's very expensive, how old
you are these percent That brings us to bougie and budget,
(28:37):
because I want you to start with your bougie and
the story behind it. My bougie.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
I bought a Camilla Mark trench. It's not it's expensive,
but it's not. It's expensive for.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
A trench I feel, but it's an investment. It's an investment.
It's timeless.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
It's a black trench that's classic that they've done for
I think the last five years, and I've been seeing
it and I had one from Zara, I had one
from coz but I just love the Camilla and Mark
tnch So I invested in that piece and it's timeless,
and I have to tailor it. No, I went down
to size because it was a good a bit. I
can still fit a jump make sure I could still
(29:12):
fit Nick down underneath it. But I went down a
size because I am shorter.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
So they're quite oversized, quite oversized. They're generous sizing, but
then they've got the oversized look, so you can. Yeah,
so I went down size for that. Well that's it,
Like that's sort of tailing. Ignore the label and just
try them on.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
So I just, yeah, I don't look at with me
when I dress myself, I don't look at the sizes
on things I wear.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
What fits my body. Yeah. May a lot of people
are driven by the label on the clothing, but I
think particularly when you're online shopping, but sometimes you know,
that's why when I can get to the stores, I
love it because I'll grab a few bunch of things
I like oversized, but yeah, I just go oh, and
that's kind of the size is a byproduct, but I try. Yeah,
it's hard on. Okay, my bougie is kind of a tip.
So I've got two options. And this is for my
(29:58):
tall girls because Stacey here at Momomea, she is amazing
and she's tall and she's always saying, Lee, help me
pants help. Whereas short girls we have to get up hands,
second up, but at least all the fit us. So
I've brought two styles of this jeans and a tip there.
I bought a Kmart version. It is the Kmart cuff
hem jean. They're thirty dollars or there's a Cause version
(30:21):
that's much more expensive. But you know how that like
wide leg. They're usually quite an indigo color, and then
it's a cuff like cuffed up so you can take
the hem down. Yes, most of them, I mean, obviously
check before you buy back. Most of them are full
fold of denim, and I've seen my tall friends then
just unpick it. That's perfect. And then they've got long
jeans because oftentimes the long brands are really expensive. And
(30:43):
like we say, you know, we might want to get
the Kmart one and you uncuff it, so I thought
I would share that for my tall girls that it's
kind of a bit of DIY tailoring because it'll still
be full length but cuffed. But then if you well
on I guess at an average hype person, but then if
you just undo it, you've got long pants. That's such
a great idea, that's clean. I thought I should pay
(31:03):
it back because I'm always winging about getting things up.
Take caken up. What's your budget budget?
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I went for a trench because I.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Was thought, oh, you've got your black teach.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
It got my black one. But then there was a
great one at Zara and it was on sale. It
was like one hundred and nineteen dollars. I think it's
still online now. But that one I had to take
the HEM up, so I didn't mind because I hadn't
invested so much money in it. Yeah, I was quite
happy to take the hem up because it did come
to the ground.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
So people that aren't super tall can even hem coats
like I never thought of.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Can definitely, and you can like you can do it properly,
like you can get a proper tailor to do it.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
But then if it's you can just turn it up and.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Literally slip stitch it the whole way, like nobody sees
the inside of the garden. Everyone if you can do
a basic stitch, you can sew a button on, you
can do a basic m just flip.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Everyone can learn to do Everyone can do a basic stitch.
So I did it properly, but I have in the past.
You've done a quick version. Oh took up a trench. Yeah,
that's also clever. All right. My budget again is kind
of a bit general, but it's something that I did
the other day, which I loved. I have a bunch
of boxy blazers and I I mean, I have a
(32:06):
bunch of everything. But then I'm really into my barrel
eggs at the moment, and I put on a boxy
blazer and I was like, oh, this is a bit
much too much. I was overwhem by too much fabric.
I grabbed one of my husband's tie so it was
a navy blazer. I grabbed one of my husband's ties. Sorry, honey,
you're probably stalking for it, and I kind of did
a cool tie thing and cinched it in. That's such
a great It looks so cool. So now I've taken
(32:28):
his burgundy he's black. He doesn't have a beige tie.
I guess beige is not that popular. But go to
a thrift store and buy men's ties if you want
to sinch something in. I mean I could have used
a regular I guess leather belt. But also I just
wanted to I wanted to stop it exactly where I
wanted to stop, and I wanted it to not make
too much statement. So because it was a fabric h
it kind of just didn't really you couldn't see it much,
(32:50):
but it gave me a good sinch. Oh, that's such
a good idea, and that's poper color if you've got Yeah,
well I was thinking, well, I mean, I'm scared of color,
but if I could do a cool contrast, like I
was thinking, I could do the navy tie with a
black blazer, Yeah, that would be great, risky and it's
a nice You've got the sin edge and then you've
got the white es and he had a few of
the needed ones. And obviously fashion at the moment a
lot of women are wearing ties, but that's another way
(33:11):
to wear it. It's just kind of sinch something in,
especially if it's a blazer or something that's a bit
too oversized with the proportions. Do you like my tailoring?
I like that idea. Thank you my hiring without Yeah,
definitely next time you need to do dregs. If I'm there,
you're phenomenal. Congratulations on all your success and all your skills.
Like if I were you, I'd be like AI sucked
(33:32):
in everyone. It's gonna take everyone's jobs, but they can't
take your flow. They can't take man. Thank you so
much for listening or watching. If you're on YouTube and
head over to Instagram, our handle is nothing to wear
pod and let us know what you think. See you
next week.
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