Thirty years making clothes.
Now I'll teach you to buy less of them.
An hour that changes what happens when you stand in front of a rail, open a website, or look at a wardrobe full of things you don't wear.
Already know you want it? Skip to what's included →It isn't that you don't have enough.
It's that the things you own have never been introduced to each other — and half of them were the wrong buy on the day you made it.
“I've got a full closet and nothing to wear.”
“I loved it in the shop. I've worn it once.”
“I don't know if it's good quality or just expensive.”
“I can't buy anything else, I already have so much.”
None of those are a taste problem. They're a confidence problem — you were never given anything to decide with. So you guess, and then you live with the guess hanging in the wardrobe.
Everyone's telling you what to buy. Nobody's telling you how to decide.
There is no shortage of people showing you outfits. Almost none of them have ever made a garment — and nearly all of them earn a commission when you buy.
I can look at a top and tell you roughly what it cost to produce. Which means I can tell you when $80 is fair, and when you're paying $68 for a story.
That's not a styling tip. It's the thing the industry would rather you didn't know, and it's the part of this you'll use for the rest of your life.
What you'll actually learn
Short enough to watch in a lunch break. Nothing about this season — every bit of it is still true in ten years.
Why your closet doesn't work
The real arithmetic. A top you wear three ways costs you four times what the same top costs worn twelve ways — and the price never moved.
What you're actually looking at
The ten-second check I do on every garment before I'll put it in the shop. Fabric, seam, hem, hardware, whether it hangs straight. Five things, and you'll never unsee them.
What did this cost to make?
How to estimate what you're really paying for — so you can tell the difference between a well-made $80 coat and a $22 coat with a good label on it.
Will it work with what I already own?
The test to run before you pay. This is the one that stops you buying another beautiful thing that goes with nothing.
The four things you can do to anything you own
Four moves that work on almost any garment hanging in your wardrobe right now. Most women use one of them. There are four.
I'll go through your actual wardrobe.
Learning the method matters. Having someone apply it to your clothes matters more — and that's the part you genuinely cannot get anywhere else.
One payment. Yours to keep for good, including anything I add later.
- Your whole wardrobe read — up to 40 pieces Send photos of everything you're unsure about. You get back every outfit they make, laid out, with the reason each one works.
- The five films Watch in any order, as many times as you like.
- Thirty days of outfits, texted to you One a morning, from your own clothes. Not inspiration — instructions, for the days you can't face deciding.
- Your let-go list — and your don't-you-dare list What to give away, with an honest reason for each. And just as importantly: the things you were about to get rid of that you shouldn't, with the outfit that proves it.
- Your gap list, in your size The two or three pieces that would open up the most of what you already own. Honest links, nothing you can't actually get.
Whatever you decide to let go of, I'll point you at Stepping Stones on Taylor Street — their thrift boutique funds their work with kids in crisis here in North Texas.
Before you ask
Isn't all this on Instagram for free?
Styling ideas, yes — endlessly. What isn't free is someone who has actually manufactured clothing telling you what a garment cost to make, and whether the price in front of you is honest. The people posting that content largely earn when you buy. I'm teaching you to buy less.
Do I need to be stylish already?
No. This is for the woman standing in her wardrobe at 7am who doesn't trust her own judgment. That's most of us, and it's a knowledge gap, not a taste one.
Is this going to tell me to throw everything out and start again?
The opposite. Most of what you need is already hanging up. A good part of this is showing you what to keep that you'd written off.
Will it still be useful in a year?
There is nothing in here about this season. Proportion, fabric, construction and what things cost to make don't change. That's deliberate — I'd rather teach you five things you'll use forever than fifty you'll use until spring.
What if it isn't for me?
Tell me within 14 days and I'll refund you. Keep the wardrobe read either way — I'm not taking back work I've already done for you.
You already own most of what you need.
Let me show you what you've got, and how to never buy the wrong thing again.
Get The Maker's Eye — $47Taught by Lori, who spent thirty years in clothing manufacturing before opening Taylor G. Your wardrobe photographs are yours — never shared, never published, deleted whenever you ask.