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5 Lessons I Learned as a Personal Stylist That Helped Clients Build Their Dream Wardrobes

People assume a decade as a personal stylist meant glamorous clients, designer wardrobes, and dressing rooms full of $2,000 dresses. The truth was much more real, and far more interesting. For ten years, I worked one-on-one with women of every age, shape, size, and lifestyle, most of them busy, everyday women living normal lives, not…

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Megan Kristel, personal stylist and founder of The Well Dressed Life

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