Sally is available for personal shopping and style consultation services – both in person for clients living in the Twin Cities, and via e-mail for clients worldwide. Over the past four years she has provided makeover services to dozens of women of all shapes, sizes, and tastes everywhere from St. Paul to Houston to D.C. and received countless kudos for her innovative, effective methods.
IN-PERSON CONSULTATIONS
For clients living in the Twin Cities, in-person consultations can be scheduled at any time. Evenings and weekend time slots are generally available several weeks in advance, and starting in September 2011 weekday time slots will be available, too. The style consult process can have up to three steps:
In-home closet consult
Sally will come to your home and help you evaluate the contents of your current wardrobe. You'll be trying stuff on for her so she can see how it works on your body. You'll start with items you're not sure about, look at items you love but don't know how to wear, and then examine your favorite ensembles and jazz them up a bit. Together, you should be able to assemble 6-12 great outfits from what you already have and generate a shopping list for new items.
Personal shopping
Sally will accompany you to predetermined stores and boutiques if you’d like to get some real-time feedback on new styles and fits.
Online recommendations
If you'd prefer to shop on your own from home, Sally can recommend some web options, shops to check, and specific pieces or styles that you should try. She can provide a selection of 5 websites, 5 brick-and-mortar stores, and 20 specific items for you within two weeks of your closet consult.
Please contact Sally at sally@alreadypretty.com for further details and rates.
ONLINE CONSULTATIONS
Not a resident of the Twin Cities, but still want to work with Sally on crafting your personal style? Online consultations are labor-intensive, but effective and enjoyable. Long-distance consults generally include the following steps:
- You'll be asked to do some general writing about your style.
- You'll be asked to take some photos of yourself to send to Sally so she can get a sense of your figure and style.
- You'll do a complete closet inventory and describe what you already own as best you can.
- After some back-and-forth e-mailing, Sally will send you Polyvore sets, a big evaluation, and a list of recommendations for creating the style you want, including links to specific items to consider purchasing and/or places to look for inspiration.
OTHER OPTIONS
Sally makes regular working trips to Chicago, and can often take in-person consultations while in town. In the coming months, trips to Boston and San Francisco are likely as well.
If you live outside the Twin Cities but would prefer an in-person consultation, please e-mail with questions and timelines.
TESTIMONIALS
I booked two playdates with Sally McGraw: a closet consult + a personal shopping trip. In less than six hours, Sally helped me:
- Overcome my lifelong aversion to bras — quite a feat!
- Build a week's worth of polished outfits, anchored around items I already own + love (hello, yoga pants!)
- Understand how to dress my natural shape with intention — and an eye to proportion.
- Learn how to tie scarves all fancy-like. (Game-changer!)
- Add several "camera-ready" pieces to my wardrobe — perfect for my upcoming book tour!
One day after our first styling session, I was spontaneously asked out to lunch by a gentleman who is a voice actor for The Muppets. I politely declined, but still ... if a real-life Muppet thinks you're foxy, you know you've got it goin' on.
Sally is a treasure — kind, thoughtful, and just the right amount of opinionated. I recommend her with the highest confidence.
~ Alexandra Franzen, Inspirational Writer + Author of 50 Ways To Say You're Awesome (Sourcebooks, 2013)
Sally found me a million amazing pieces of clothing, and beyond that, she helped me determine my priorities when it came to figure flattery. She helped me craft my adult style identity and taught me to shop for it. Everything I loved about fashion came flooding back and I felt invigorated and excited. Most significantly, and this was a regular experience in my life as someone seriously overweight: she never, ever told me that I needed to lose weight. Not to fit into clothes, or to be stylish or beautiful. When I asked her, as we wrapped up, if weight loss would change my silhouette, she was supportive and encouraging. When I wrote to her a year later, unfamiliar with my body after a 90 pound weight loss, she helped me reconfigure.
~ Sarah, Washington D.C.
After a few hours with Sally, my closet was lighter... but my attitude about clothes was much, much better. See, I'd been shopping with the wrong point of view. I was chronically frustrated that so much of what I liked in stores didn't fit me correctly. Now that I better understand how to dress for my body type, I feel discerning instead. Not every brand or department can handle my curves, but that's cool. I'm only interested in clothes that help me look and feel my best anyway.
Thanks to Sally, I'm experimenting more. I'm rocking more accessories (most of which I already had but never wore). And I have a few rules to keep me focused and grounded when shopping. The best part? The style consult was like hanging out with a super-stylish girlfriend--relaxed, comfortable and easy. I can't wait to have another consult with Sally to sort through another season's worth of clothes. I'm fairly certain some of them aren't quite worthy of my curves either.
~ Kellie, Minneapolis , MN
Sally provided to me SO much more than I bargained for! After assessing my closet, my needs, and my personal style goals, she combined items I already have into new and interesting combinations. She created completely new combinations – which is awesome because it really helped me to think outside the box with my wardrobe. Getting dressed in the morning has become infinitely easier because, 1) I know that I have plenty of great items in my wardrobe (thus virtually eliminating, the “I have nothing to wear” mentality) and 2) I have pictures to help me choose my outfits. I simply printed out her combinations and that has really changed everything about my mornings.
The communication I had with her via email was thorough and well thought-out. There were many times I read what she wrote and I felt like she was a best friend who knew me really well! Her assessments were spot on.
You may be thinking to yourself, “Do I really NEED a style consult?” The answer is a resounding YES! People I talked to about working with Sally were kind of surprised that I wanted this kind of help because I do consider myself a stylish person who often receives compliments on my style. Sally has strong fashion sense and a keen eye for styling on top of embracing all shapes and sizes. She helped bring order to chaos in my stylistic endeavors on top of making recommendations based on my figure.
~ Allison, Chicago, IL
My closet consult with Sally was my big Christmas present this year and I can honestly say now that it was my best Christmas gift ever. She taught me lessons that will take me into the coming years – lessons on how to assess my style, where to begin styling an outfit, what garments suit me well and which ones fight with my body and image. Sally was extremely professional throughout the entire experience while putting me completely at ease – which was quite a feat considering she was working with me in a part of my home that is usually a very private and personal space. But right away Sally made me feel like I was being helped by a close girlfriend who had my back fashion-wise. At no time did I feel uncomfortable or pushed into making decisions too quickly. She did challenge me, however, and looking back now, the questions she raised were immensely helpful. I had definitely gotten into a rut with my thinking about clothing, fashion, shopping and body image and Sally gently nudged me out of my fashion comfort zone into areas where I could grow and develop. It’s been a month now since my consult and there hasn’t been a day since that I haven’t been reminded of Sally’s lessons to take care of myself by dressing well. She gave me the tools and a fresh start to make that happen. It was a very special Christmas gift indeed!
~ Lynn, Wayzata, MN
{Read JW's entire story of her consult and style journey here.}
~ JW, The Southwest
Please contact Sally at sally@alreadypretty.com for further details and rates.
