I paid $1,600 for a professional stylist to fix my closet and teach me how to dress. Here's what actually changed.

Learning how to style my outfits using clothes I already have and enjoy doing it would be no easy feat.

Amy Lombard for BI

There are few experiences more humbling than explaining your underwear drawer to a stranger.In addition to Amazon Essentials' full-coverage cotton fleet, my drawer contained: nursing bras from 2021, mismatched socks, confining shapewear purchased during moments of aspirational delusion, and several aggressively neon lingerie items my husband had acquired online in what I can only describe as an enduring commitment to keeping the spark alive after 16 years of marriage and two children.This was the sorry state of affairs when professional stylist Liz Teich of The New York Stylist walked into my house this spring.I warned Teich ahead of time that every horizontal surface in my bedroom would be covered with clothing representing versions of myself I could no longer fully recognize.

My closet had many relics from my past.

Amy Lombard for BI