# Is there a 'right time' to invest in your style? - **Episode:** [149](https://agents.truthliesandwork.com/episodes/149.md) (2024-11-28) - **Type:** interview - **Tags:** age, style, investment - **Time:** 30:28–33:59 (start 1828s) - **Listen:** [https://truthliesandwork.com/149?t=1828](https://truthliesandwork.com/149?t=1828) --- [30:28] Leanne Elliott: Do your clients tend to come to you at a particular age? The reason I ask, I'm about to turn 40 in about a month's time, and I'm concerned as I get older of dressing appropriately, but not like an old person because I don't feel old. But at the same time, I feel there's maybe a— Is there a point where I need to start elevating my style, perhaps? Is that a thing, or is it really just for every individual? [30:55] Angela Foster: Wow, there was so much goodness there. I don't want to forget a thing. Okay, so is there a time where clients usually come to me? 100%. It's usually when, if they're entrepreneurs, it's usually when they're ready to uplevel their business. They're going to have more visibility opportunities. They're going to have more speaking engagements. They just wrote a book, that type of thing. So visibility is a deal, and they want to feel confident. In whatever that looks like. The other thing is, is usually when there's big life changes. I just had a baby and now I don't recognize my body and I don't know how to dress for it anymore. I'm going through menopause and I don't know what is going on with my body and nothing fits and all of that. So normally it's one of those things that triggers it. It can also— I have several, several clients who get a promotion to a director or a C-suite position and they feel like they need to level up their image because they're leading a bigger more important team now. So it's usually something along those lines. And really, you think about it, and I don't know about you, but nobody ever taught me how to shop. My mom and I would go shopping, but I mean, she was shooting in the dark as much as I was. We were just picking out things, trying things on. Sometimes it was successful, sometimes it wasn't. We had a whole bunch of clothes in the closet, but not necessarily pulled together outfits. Well, And it's not her fault. I totally don't blame her. When she listens, I don't want her to think I'm blaming. But nobody ever teaches us how to get dressed for our body shape. And then as women, your body's going to change. So then you need to know what to do when that happens so you don't freak out and start blaming yourself or blaming your body and all of that. So there's that. Then you made a comment about you're going to turn 40. Happy early birthday, by the way. And then age appropriate. So one of the things that helps women with the whole age appropriate thing, and you look at women now, and I'm 52, and I feel like when I was 20, I heard 52 and I was like, oh my God, you might as well just like pack it in. You're done. Right? But 50 looks a lot different today. I think I'm probably biased, but 50 looks a lot different today than it did 30 years ago. So the whole like age appropriate thing, I don't know. I have a kind of a love-hate relationship with it. We've all seen those girls who are like, we don't know what age appropriate is, but we know that's not it, right? Like, we're like, oh gosh. But I think when you learn how to dress for the body that you have today, I mean, like, my boobs are not where they were at when I was 20, right? So obviously, like, things I wear on top are not going to be as revealing or as tight and all of that as it was 30 years ago. But when you dress for the body you have, then it kind of takes care of the whole age appropriate thing [33:37] Leanne Elliott: Yeah. As you say, you said dress for the body you have. And I wonder if a lot of, and myself included, spend a lot of time planning to buy the clothes for the body we're going to have in 6 months' time. I mean, if anyone's listening going, I like the sound of that, how do I— is there anything I can do to understand my body, my shape, and understand where to start shopping?