My name's Christie Johnson and I live in Elgin, Illinois
and I am absolutely obsessed with tie dye.
I have so many things that are tie dye,
tie dye sweatshirts and my tie dye coat,
tie dye mask, tie dye stretch pants, tie dye winter hat
that I absolutely love.
My daughter thinks my obsession
with tie dye is a little much.
I think that my mom is way go obsess with tie dye.
She wears it like four or five times a week,
a lot, everywhere, all the time
and I'm always like, "Mom, you don't need more tie dye."
And she always buys more.
You can never have enough,
so I always just keep adding more.
I love tie dye.
It's just so bright and colorful
and it just makes me feel joyful and cheerful.
I'm afraid that she's going to be
like 96 and wearing tie dye.
Also she's a bit too old to be wearing tie dye.
It's more of a kid thing.
My daughter says ditch the tie dye,
but I completely say tie dye forever,
will never be able to give it up.
I wanna know from Zanna, is it a keep or a toss?
Hi Christie, how are you?
Hi, I'm so excited to meet you both.
I think you are brighter and bigger than tie dye,
just your personality.
So, whatever Zanna says and whatever I say
and whatever your daughter thinks,
you keep on being you because that's what's important.
Your personality is the essence of tie dye.
Well, I certainly love my tie dye.
I have so much of it.
The rainbow, it's so happy,
how can you not be happy when you're wearing tie dye?
It's so true Christie
and you look like you're having fun in it.
I do like to think of it as like wearable optimism, right?
It's like showing this great optimistic vibe with the color
and the print at this time when we kinda need it
and for that reason, and also many other reasons,
we are gonna keep it.
It is not a toss, it is a keep.
(Christie clapping)
I'm so excited I get to keep it.
Oh, however-
A little bit of an edit.
I think there's definitely some ways we can elevate it
and make it a little bit less junior,
like your daughter said, a little bit more appropriate
for many more occasions
and I believe we sent over a few bits for you,
a few things to try on.
So, if you are okay that, would love you to go
and pop a few things on, those specific pieces we sent
and then come back in and we'll zhuzh
and make together a look.
Awesome, I'll for you in a minute.
And now we're going to see, hopefully,
Christie, we're trying to help her keep tie dye in her life,
Zanna, what would you call it?
Bring it next level, elevate it a little bit or-
Elevate's a great word, add some modernity to it
and also add more versatility to it.
We saw a lot with like hoodies and sweats and tie dye,
which I love the pieces, but they only can take you so far.
It'd be great if you can wear tie dye for work
or tie dye for a dinner out.
So, we wanted to just tweak it in a few ways
to just give it a little bit more polish.
Just bring it up a bit.
Turn it up to 11, if you were watching the Spinal Tap guys.
Okay, Let's see Christie's the outfit.
Come on, Christie.
(upbeat music) (Rachael cheering)
Zanna, talk us through this.
Okay, so we got rid of the sneakers
and then the baggy sweats
and we replaced them with a really chic,
sharp, fitting jean, added on a nice pump,
so that gonna elongate.
Now, I would love you to do-
I love a plain black pump, it works with everything.
A like a little black dress,
a little black pump is the way to go.
A must have in everyone's wardrobe, absolutely.
So, with this, Christie, would you just tuck
the t-shirt in for me?
Even just front, let's give it some shape.
There you go.
Got a great figure, let's show that off
and it also tidies the look, tidies the tie dye.
There you go.
I love the half tuck,
the baby tuck, the half tuck.
That's right, it takes a minute to master.
Okay and now we're gonna give it a little bit
of a more business edge or a little bit of a cool girl edge
with an oversized men's blazers,
which is something that's really trending as well.
So, don't go for the tighter blazers,
the bigger, the better right now.
Love this, cool double breasted, flip the hair, love.
Amazing.
Look at the difference between now that
and what we had earlier.
Christie, it just carved out your shape,
flatters you, makes you look young, strong, tall, cool,
very hip, it's so easy.