Talking About Clothes with Holly Chayes

In this season we're having conversations about shopping in the Pre-Covid-19 version of normality. These conversations took place between the tail end of 2019 and the first months of 2020.

We talk ab…

This is the final episode of season three of Talking About Clothes. In it, I talk about how the hardest part of this whole year-long project was showing up everyday and doing the thing I showed up to…

One of the things that I wore pretty much every single day prior to doing this self made wardrobe project was jeans.

But at the beginning of this project, when I was building up the number of garment…

I know I'm not the only one who makes snap judgments about my clothes. Especially when I first try a garment on that's not my usual cut or silhouette or style. That's what happened with one of the dr…

Like with food, a really good high quality fabric is going to give you incredible results even if your skill level isn't that of master chef or a master couturier. However, you can also make not so g…

I'm pretty sure if I had had all of the time in the world, I wouldn't have come up with this dress solution. There's something about a deadline that clarifies exactly what the parameters of the proje…

Time seems like a very bizarre concept right now.

It has that funny quality of not really being solid anymore and not being something that we can agree on the unit of measuring time by and I'm thinki…

"Oh, I don't have patience for that." I can't tell you how many times I've been told that while knitting or sewing.

But the trick is, you don't knit or sew because you have patience. You have patienc…

Knitting this sweater was a hot mess. It was messy, it was ugly. It involved a lot of cursing and re knitting and reworking and shoving the project into a drawer for a couple days. And in all honesty…

Looking back on this year long project, I'm almost as much amazed by the garments I didn't wear as the garments I wore dozens upon dozens of time. You would think that with a super limited wardrobe I…

One of the first things I had to contend with when setting up this project was: what was I going to count as a garment that I needed to make?

I came up with two rules for this project:

1. accessories a…

I had originally planned on bringing you the third collection full of incredible conversations with wonderful guests all focused around the topic of shopping. However, things have changed dramaticall…

Everything seems to have turned upside down since the second season of the podcast came out last week. And it is probable that the third season will be at least a little bit delayed from the original…

Our conversation includes making style rules that fit your environment, buying really nice clothes that you never wear and that don’t work together, dressing a rapidly changing body. Middle school st…

Our conversation covers constructing a life that supports your self expression, not compromising on style or physical comfort, the power of the simplicity of kindness, buying and wearing what you wan…

Our conversation about personal style touches on ditching rules in favor of creating style guidelines, letting utility and comfort inform your visual style, the efficiency of a capsule closet, and no…

In our conversation, we discuss style evolutions and experimenting with your style, caring less about how you look as you become more comfortable with yourself. Working with a stylist to put words ar…

In this conversation we talk about the importance of clothes that are easy, plain and simple, rebuilding a wardrobe to fit your life after extreme personal circumstances. The Holy Grail of pockets an…

In this conversation we touch on developing clothing habits that stay with you for your entire life, opting out of the exhausting cycles of fashion, dressing to please yourself first. Clothing as a v…

Our conversation around comfort touches on utility as a wellspring for comfortable clothing. Comfortable undergarments in both fit and construction, the importance of fiber when it comes to comfort a…