So here's why you don't need expensive clothes
to have a great wardrobe, come on in. Let's do it.
Welcome to my closet.
It is an interesting place, I'll tell you.
Got a lot of story times
in almost every piece and every shoe and every watch and everything,
and I would love to talk to you about memories associated
with some of these things.
So before I start the tour,
I just want to let you know that this is a sponsored post.
I am really happy actually about today's sponsor.
It is ThredUp and ThredUp is an amazing company
because they are basically an online thrift store that allows you
to save tons of money while also helping the environment
and get amazing options from brand names.
And I will show you
in a little bit things that I chose for the season coming up
the winter season, the holiday season.
So let me show you my dress side of my closet, for starters.
Here we have a rainbowtized.
It is the way to organize everything.
I organize my kids books, rainbowtized.
I organize their clothes, rainbowtized.
And so therefore you will see that
all of my clothes are generally rainbowtized,
because if not, it's just one big, hot, blurry mess.
Let's see what pieces I have.
And also, let's see what pieces that I have thrifted,
because there are some things
that either were handed down to me or that I actually thrifted.
I used to love when I traveled
to pick up thrifted items in different cities,
which is another reason why I love ThredUp.
one of the quotes that I am known for is you don't need
expensive clothes to look cute. So let's see here.
This actually was the dress that I wore when I made my announcement
that I was pregnant
with my first child on the red carpet in this dress,
and that holds a special place in my heart.
The trouble is, is that this was such a momentous occasion
for me that I have a hard time justifying wearing this dress
in other photoshoots. So let's see what else.
Oh, this dress is so much fun.
You guys look at this in the green section.
I've got a Shego dress.
I had so much fun
wearing this at D23 a few years back. My friend Katy Hoffer
does like nerd couture and this has pockets. Amazing.
All her dresses have pockets,
super breathable, super cozy, super, I would say.
Very flattering as well because it's got like
the scuba material. But I mean, tailored. Just great.
This is our first thrifted piece.
I got this little number.
I believe I got this in New Orleans.
This is a really great piece. It's obviously very vintage.
You can tell just by the hardware on the thing,
and I'm really excited to wear this
pretty much like on the fourth of July and some patriotic things.
I used to justify keeping a lot of clothes because
what if that character came?
And I would need to be X,
and I've learned to kind of try to let things go at a certain point.
OK, so this dress is really meaningful to me.
This is my mom's dress. It's a Betsey Johnson dress. So go, mom.
I wore this when I did my engagement photo session with Brendan,
and it's a really beautiful dress that I would like
to give to my daughter someday.
What I find interesting is that like when we look as women
at our clothing, you can really see such a range.
So modesty and modest fashion has become something that's
super acceptable because there's a ton of fashion out there
that's really sort of scandalous and very bodycon focused.
This is like a perfect example of like a bodycon dress for me.
But then at the same time, I'll have a dress like this
that is perfectly modest, something that I would wear with like a mommy
and me, like my daughters and I did a mommy and me photoshoot in this.
But this is the range of what we're working with, OK?
There's before kids, there's after kids.
Just kidding. Well, mommy could still rock this.
OK, so this is one of my, I think, most expensive,
but I don't remember exactly how much, only because of the name. Right.
So this is a Versace dress,
and I try to wear it as much as possible because it is a Versace dress
and I may not ever buy a Versace dress again.
I wore it recently, and it never disappoints.
It's a beautiful, beautiful dress. OK.
And then this is a thrifted right next to that Versace dress
that I also got in New Orleans.
New Orleans has a really amazing
sensibility and style, and they have great thrift shops there.
So this has a different feel to it.
I love this dress. Oh my god, do you want to see something crazy?
I really need to let these go. OK?
Tags are still on, but this is literally a bridesmaids dress
from when I was engaged the first time when I was 21 years old.
What was I thinking? I have two of these.
Look at this. The tag was still on.
You don't even want to know, but
this is a beautiful La Perla dress and I spent way too much money on it,
and it's a part of my past that I would really rather put to bed.
Comment below if you think somebody would like this. It's gorgeous.
It ties on the front kitten bow.
It's black and would be a beautiful holiday dress.
And if you want it, it's yours.
Color so important.
I love that my shirt's up top here and my shirt's down there.
They are sort of more blousy material.
My t shirts are in a dresser, but
these guys are all sort of color coded so that when I want to do something
that's related to social media, I have stuff that's just colorful.
And again, it is a mix
of stuff I've had for a long time and some stuff I haven't.
Some things that you know,
you're just not going to want to wear
on a daily basis, you know, it's OK to have a couple of pieces
that are statement pieces.
And when I say a couple, I mean,
you know, as much as your closet
can fit, if you really like it and it fits you nicely, that's
the most important thing. Sometimes people will take things to tailors
and they'll just tailor something, and it looks so much more expensive.
I've yet to do that.
I have a pile of things that I would like to go and do that with.
But yeah, take care of your clothes and they will take care of you.
Don't pay attention to this. This is my husband's stuff.
He gets only a small section because that's all he requires.
Now, if he needed more, I’d give him more.
But he doesn’t, ok? He doesn’t.
We've talked about it.
It's OK. We've got shoes, we've got boots.
We've got my little section here,
which I actually think is really pretty.
When I came and I moved here.
I was like, You know, I don't really have a place
to kind of sit and sort of enjoy being in this feminine space.
Some part of the reason why I liked the way
that I kind of laid this one out
this closet was because I felt like it feels more like a boutique.
And so you want to shop your closet, which I think is really fun.
This right here made it feel like a boutique for me.
It kind of ties in the whole like,
Oh, you're somewhere fancy and you've got your pretty, you know?
So even when mom is tired and she has to get ready in a flash,
I get to come in here and I get to kind of just feel like I can breathe.
This is my space.
So this piece right here super important.
It is a legacy piece. Legacy pieces are rare.
My mother gave this to me and it is fur.
It was, I would imagine, humanely made. OK.
I can't endorse the fur culture.
OK, I'm not in any way, shape or form saying like, get fur everything.
I know that that is a loaded topic, but my mom gave me this fur
and I wear it when it's an extremely special occasion.
It's really quite beautiful.
And I will put it back.
I wish that I actually could put it
somewhere, even separate from everything else.
But as long as it's in a temperature
controlled environment, it's pretty safe.
This one right here is really fun.
It's a loungefly bag I did with a collaboration with them,
and I just love looking at it because I mean, it's a Mickey Mouse
ice cream sandwich. How can you not look at that and just smile?
Now that leads me to the Chanel bags.
I love them dearly with all my heart.
My husband gifted this to me, and I am just so happy
to have it, and I'm trying to keep it in good condition.
We got it actually second hand, so we didn't just go to the store and
blow a buch of money on it, but it was like second hand.
And to me, it means just as much. This one
I did actually go to the store many, many years ago and blow money on it.
It's a red bag. I never wear this, I never wear this.
I never wanted it.
I never dreamed about it.
I never put any thought into wearing this.
I just went out and bought it. Impulse buy, wanted it.
There's a difference. I still respect it.
I try to keep it on its own little edge, but it's more decoration.
OK, so that leads me to ThredUp.
OK, I was super excited
that they wanted to sponsor
this video, which is a fashion themed video because I really like
what they're doing.
I was able to sign on and pick a few pieces,
and they were all super cost effective and in amazing order,
look at how cute this bag is.
So this is like my winter capsule right now, and I'm really excited.
I'm going to go on a Christmas trip with my family.
We haven't gone on vacation in a year and a half or something like that, so
this is a really cute bag and it's got the tags on. Right here
is like a perfect example of how amazing the name brands are.
This is a Neiman Marcus jacket that I got for, like 50 bucks
or something like that.
Great prices at threadup for quality brand names.
This is so cute.
I love this. It's a brand named Odyn.
How cute is this for like a winter occasion?
I'm obsessed with this vest.
I'm very, very excited to wear it and rock it with turtleneck, etc.
It goes with everything and it's cozy.
And that leads me to another warm
piece, another cozy piece that I found on there.
They have a ton of vests and stuff like that on there.
Tons of accessories and gloves.
I mean, you name it, they have it. All right.
So this leads me to the last piece of the ThredUp Hall.
I guess you want to call it. It is so cute.
How could I not get this for the holidays?
It's cozy and it was so cheap.
Somebody must have loved this sweater because it is literally like new.
In fact, everything that I got from ThredUp is like new.
This right here is going to be super cute
with my ThredUp gloves that I found. I mean, how cute is this?
Even though I have a ton of
really amazing basics and some really great statement pieces
through threadup, I was able to get quality pieces
that I've been meaning to get for years.
And if you haven't go check out ThredUp,
they’re a lot of fun and go set up an account and enjoy.
They say that a closet
is a very intimate space for a person, especially a woman, and it was.
I'm really happy that I got to take you into my little space
right here so that you can kind of see a little bit more
about me, thanks for coming along.