about me
I’m a former classical musician turned personal stylist. My pronouns are she/her. I’m an introvert, a highly-sensitive person, an obliger, an INFJ, a Human Design projector, an empath, and a Cancer.
While all that means that I’m constantly overwhelmed by emotion and sensory overload, it also means that I’m super-intuitive about seeing what’s going on with other people and super-empathetic, which comes in handy when clients have to get vulnerable with me.
I’m on a mission to help women stop wasting time and energy on getting dressed because they’re trying to conform into a way of dressing or buying that doesn’t work for them, and actually, has actively been working to make them feel bad about themselves. My work has been featured in Forbes, Real Simple, and Lifehacker, and I’ve been a guest on over 50 podcasts.
I got here because of years of experimentation and frustration figuring out my own wardrobe. After buying hundreds of items I didn’t need or didn’t like. Years of feeling like I didn’t measure up, and didn’t have the “right” thing. Years of body changes that left me feeling off balance.
I finally paid attention to my inner voice and when it was screaming that it was uncomfortable, and started only wearing the things that made it sigh in relief. I realized that my body didn’t have to be a piece of my identity and that size doesn’t determine style.
Around the same time, I started listening more closely to that same voice and realized that it was telling me the work I was doing wasn’t for me. The pace of life I’d been living wasn’t for me. Listening to myself about clothes led to me listening to myself about how I wanted to live. About the work I wanted to do. Listening to myself about what felt good has helped me accept my changing body through aging and growing and shrinking to grow two humans. I still have to work hard to hear myself through the noise. But I practiced by listening to myself about what to wear.
Can I give you styling tips, closet organization tips, shopping tips? Sure. And I will. But if you choose to stick around here, you need to know it’s about more than the clothes.
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Official media bio:
As a weight inclusive, anti-diet personal stylist, Dacy Gillespie helps her clients reject fashion rules and ideal standards of beauty imposed by the patriarchy, white supremacism, and capitalism so that they can uncover their authentic style. Through their work building a functional wardrobe, Dacy’s clients make a mindset shift from thinking they need to wear what’s flattering to unapologetically taking up space in the world.
After a lifetime of jobs in high-stress careers that didn’t suit her highly-sensitive, introverted personality, Dacy started mindful closet in 2013 in an attempt to create a more emotionally sustainable lifestyle. Her work has been featured in Forbes, Real Simple, New York Magazine’s The Strategist, and Lifehacker, and she is a frequent podcast guest. Dacy lives with her husband and two children in St. Louis, Missouri.
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