ALL Dressed UP by DELANEY WILLET Photograph by MEADOW ROSE
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t is safe to assume that many of us have had that lurking feeling of guilt throughout this quarantine: you look longingly into your closet, at the myriad outfits you haven’t been able to wear in a year, and know that it is due for a thorough spring cleaning. You then glance back at your three-day old sweatpants and tattered college t-shirt and decide to watch another season of The Hills reruns. And that is completely fine! Your neighbor and your neighbor’s neighbor are probably living out different versions of this cycle as well. But, if you would like to emerge from quarantine more refreshed than you entered it (or at least a tick more stylish), we have all the motivation you need from Santa Barbara-based stylist Elissa Williams. Williams is the founder of the Virtual Closet Concierge, an online service where she “creates outfits for women based on their next-level self from clothes already in their closet.” Elissa conducts her sartorial magic remotely, which is especially helpful under these social distancing circumstances. That deep clean you pushed aside during the chaos of last spring? There has seldom been a better time to follow through with it than within self-isolation. Williams recommends a closet overhaul, “Do a virtual try-on party with a friend. Get Zoom or FaceTime up and start making outfits from the clothes you have in your closet to bring some freshness in.”
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DRESSING YOURSELF OUT OF QUARANTINE BLUES WITH LOCAL STYLIST ELISSA WILLIAMS
