Welcome! I'm Holly Chayes.
I’m Holly, a style and wardrobe consultant.
In short, I fix broken wardrobes.
In long(er), I work with you to bring your clothing into alignment with who you are, and who you feel you are meant to be.
even complicated projects usually start simply
Unfortunately complicated projects don’t generally fall out of your brain fully formed. It usually starts with an outline, or a sketch, a rough approximation. There’s a reason painters sketch, novelists outline, and knitters swatch. Sketches, outlines and swatches are all places to play and experiment, to solve problems and work out contingencies, with low expectations, and little investment. I’ve talked about my love affair with swatching before, but I also “sketch” for many of my knitting design projects. I open up my charting software and draw out what I want the design to look like, using yarn-overs and decreases, kind of like a proto-chart . Then I refine and tweak, refine and tweak, until I’m happy with the chart, and I start knitting. (This tweaking is what turns the initial sketch into the final chart.) This process of sketching, then tweaking and refining, isn’t just for knitwear or pattern designing.... Read More
