Dressing For Wellness

In this episode of Dressing for Wellness, Taylor (Inherent Clothier CEO) talks to Emmy Award Winning Costume Designer Janie Bryant (Mad Men, Deadwood, Why Women Kill), a new part-owner of Inherent Clothier. They discuss Janie’s background in costume design for film and TV and how she discovered her passion for menswear. Janie also shares her views on contemporary menswear, cultivating confidence in yourself, and more. They even share some details on their upcoming collection, which Janie and Taylor designed together! Be sure to follow Inherent Clothier on instagram to see this collection come to life.

3 Key Points

1. Money isn’t required to take pride in your appearance.
   
2. Modern menswear is focused on versatility and the ability to mix-and-match pieces.
   
3. Confidence is important in following your passions, but sometimes it only comes once you start.
   

Episode Highlights:

• Janie is now a part owner of Inherent Clothier, and she has wanted to design a menswear collection for years.
  
• As a costume designer on shows like Mad Men, Janie has seen firsthand how men realize the impact a well-fitted suit can have on their confidence.
  
• You can take pride in your appearance no matter how much money you have.
  
• You can turn a suit into a more casual, everyday look by wearing a t-shirt under the jacket or pairing a sport coat with jeans.
  
• Janie believes menswear badly needed an update in the way Inherent Clothier is making it modern.
  
• To Janie, a modern interpretation of formalwear is the flexibility to wear a dinner jacket with jeans, and to otherwise mix and match.
  
• The Bryan Draper Capsule Collection will include formalwear, shirts, all-season suits, and you'll be able to mix and match all the pieces.
  
• Janie studied fashion design in college and moved to France when she graduated with the dream of becoming a famous fashion designer.
  
• Once she moved to New York, she ended up in social circles with a lot of film people and learned about costume design.
  
• Janie was working on a music video and the director told her to believe in her choices and to believe in herself; she hadn’t even realized she was doubting herself, but that advice has stuck with her.
  

Tweetable Quotes:

• “There’s so many combinations, and you can really turn the suit into something that used to be, in older generations, a formal thing, into just an everyday, casual thing.” –Janie Bryant
  
• “I truly believe that enlightenment and joyfulness is optimal to live a great life. So how do you get to that place? You get to that place through great mental health.” –Janie Bryant
  
• “Being yourself and having confidence and faith in yourself is the most magical thing you can do.” –Janie Bryant
  

Resources Mentioned:

• Inherent Clothier Website
• Inherent Clothier Instagram

In this episode of Dressing for Wellness, Taylor (Inherent Clothier CEO) speaks with Eduardo Xavier of European Custom Tailors. They discuss the importance of hats, how to cultivate your personal style, the importance of travel in understanding your style and communicating with other people, and more. Eduardo also shares his perspective on building your personal image, and how that has an inextricable relationship to your mental health.

3 Key Points

1. Exploration, whether travel or just via Instagram, is crucial to developing your personal style.
   
2. Learning to style the pieces you have is often more impactful and important than the quality of the items themselves.
   
3. Developing your personal image is a way to develop greater self confidence.
   

Episode Highlights:

• The quality of a suit has less of an impact than overall styling does.
  
• Eduardo’s advice to someone looking to develop their personal menswear style is to explore Instagram, but understand your body and look for models with similar bodies to yours.
  
• Exploration is key to figuring out your style.
  
• Styling has to do with your overall image—as you learn about yourself and what you like and what image of yourself you want to show the world, the world starts to notice and perceives you differently, which reflects back to you whether that’s the image you want to have.
  

Resources Mentioned:

• Inherent Clothier Website
• Inherent Clothier Instagram
• European Custom Tailors

In this episode of Dressing for Wellness, Taylor (Inherent Clothier CEO) and Steven (Art Director) talk to their friend Chaz about his experience as a Black man growing up in the very white area of Colorado Springs. They discuss the Black Lives Matter movement, the George Floyd protests, and the necessity of conversation around difficult subjects.

3 Key Points

1. Talking to people who are outside of your regular experience is crucial for understanding and empathy.
   
2. Appreciation does not equal appropriation.
   
3. One conversation may not change somebody, but maybe the second one will, or the fifth, or the seventh.
   

Episode Highlights:

• Chaz’s biggest goal as a person of color during the Black Lives Matter movement is to have conversations with people.
  
• As a person of color, there’s a lot of history that you feel like you need to live up to, or not, and it caused significant confusion in identity for Chaz.
  
• There’s a difference between Black Lives Matter the movement and Black Lives Matter the organization.
  
• In fashion, Black people didn’t have a style icon until the 1950s when Black people were first allowed on TV.
  
• Chaz thinks appreciation tips into appropriation when there’s no recognition of where something originated and when credit is not given; for example, that Frank Sinatra’s style is inspired by Nat King Cole and that almost all popular music originated with Black artists.
  
• If you’re having mental health struggles, talk to someone.
  

Resources Mentioned:

• Inherent Clothier Website
• Inherent Clothier Instagram

In this episode of Dressing for Wellness, Taylor (Inherent Clothier CEO) and Steven (Art Director) discuss Steven’s experience with an Inherent custom suit. Steven talks about what he used to think of suits, how his appearance has affected the way others react to him, and more.

They also discuss the important impact that a custom suit can have on your confidence, and in turn, your mental health.

3 Key Points

1. When you feel so great because of what you’re wearing, that translates into people approaching you and treating you differently.
   
2. How you feel can change how you see and respond to struggles that arise.
   
3. Inherent will now be featuring a photo of Steven’s that aligns with the mental health theme in the suit lining.

Episode Highlights:

• Growing up, Steven’s dad put on a suit every day and went to his office job, so Steven never viewed suits as a form of self-expression until starting his own menswear journey.
  
• People perceive suits as uncomfortable, but custom suits are not because they’re made for your body.
  
• Inherent has been able to scientifically link the confidence from a custom suit to overcoming mental health struggles.
  
• Clothing can’t take away how you feel or cure mental health struggles, but it can affect how you see things and respond to things.

Resources Mentioned:

• Inherent Clothier Website
• Inherent Clothier Instagram

In this episode of Dressing for Wellness, Taylor (Inherent Clothier CEO) and Steven (Art Director) discuss cultivating a less is more mindset when it comes to your wardrobe. Fast fashion brands have trained society to not think about their wardrobe or to invest in quality pieces, but studies show this leads to negative environmental impact and overspending in the long term.

They also share how the less is more mindset has impacted the way Inherent Clothier is designing their upcoming seasonal collections and the new capsule wardrobes that are in development.

3 Key Points

1. Fast fashion leads people to spend more money over time than investing in high quality, custom clothing.
   
2. Check in with yourself before you impulse buy to see where that decision is coming from emotionally.
   
3. There’s no need to change your entire wardrobe at once, but work towards investing in nicer pieces one at a time.
   

Episode Highlights:

• All of the patterns and fabric at Inherent Clothier are hand drawn and handmade for your measurements.
  
• The average person spends more money on clothes per year than the cost of a car, by buying over 60 new pieces of clothing each year.
  
• Think about your overall wardrobe and the pieces you actually need instead of impulse buying.
  
• When you impulse buy, is the decision being made from a place of emotion? If it is, reach out to a friend or loved one instead.
  
• Most people today don’t consider what’s already in their wardrobe when they’re buying something.
  
• If people were more patient, we would consume less.
  
• Inherent has been releasing 4-5 suits with each seasonal collection, and they were so carefully designed but Taylor felt people didn’t get to appreciate it like they hopefully will with just 1 suit in each collection.
  
• The less is more mindset is better for the environment. Fast fashion items fill landfills as soon as they fall apart or the season is over.
  
• Start with what you’re going to wear the most, saving money towards specific items, to slowly build your wardrobe over time.

Tweetable Quotes:

• “We lost the education piece of style and clothing for the most part. I think most of society has lost that. So they’ve almost been programmed by these fast fashion brands to just be like, oh yeah, a button-up shirt should cost $30-50.” –Taylor Draper
  
• “I’m going from 4-5 suits a collection to 1, and making that 1 resonate with the mental health theme each time because that’s what we do here.” –Taylor Draper
  
• “How many ways can I wear that? How often will I be able to wear that? Should be your first question before you buy a suit.” –Taylor Draper

Resources Mentioned:

• Inherent Clothier Website
• Inherent Clothier instagram
• Investment Clothing: Buy Less, Buy Better
• Articles of Style; Cost Per Wear
• Simon Sinek: The Infinite Game