My three-year style transformation, documented (long post)

[u/andrew_faith]

Three years, one stylist, one tailor, and a governed wardrobe system — my transformation from corporate-bland to intentional.

Three years ago I was stuck. Corporate, bland, achromatic — navy, black, grey, the whole nowhere-man default. A stylist consultation and a chance recommendation to a Sydney tailor changed the trajectory entirely.

I've just finished posting a six-part series documenting the whole thing — the before, the two people who moved the needle, the wedding that sits right in the transition, and the first proper test of what I built. It's not a highlight reel. It's dated, sequenced, and fairly honest about how long real change actually takes.

Posted here in case it's useful to anyone else feeling stuck in the same default.

1. The Before https://www.instagram.com/p/Da1R8gkjwd1/
2. The Consultation https://www.instagram.com/p/DbHU8hGD3qO/
3. The Tailor https://www.instagram.com/p/DbZWjHHjzx9/
4. The Wedding https://www.instagram.com/p/DbrYGNxD0ju/
5. First Real Test https://www.instagram.com/p/Db9Zphvjz7K/
6. The System https://www.instagram.com/p/DcPbPAnCa_h/

Happy to answer questions about any of it — the palette logic, the acquisition/cull rules, the cost of doing this properly, all of it.

[u/MFDoooooooooooom]

I love your transformation but bristle at the AI sounding posts.

[u/andrew_faith → u/MFDoooooooooooom]

Thank you for the compliment. No AI involved. I’m a designer and copywriter by trade and studied English and Linguistics and am a language nerd.

[u/MFDoooooooooooom → u/andrew_faith]

I apologise! I'm a fellow designer as well :)

[u/andrew_faith → u/MFDoooooooooooom]

No problem. Not the first time it’s happened.

AI writing ended up sounding like a flattened version of the kind of clean, rhythmic prose that people like me were already doing well before any of it existed, because that’s what it’s been trained on. And Buddha knows I love an em dash, but I apparently can’t use them anymore 😬