In this story of UNfashioned, I explore the labels stitched inside our clothes and the ones we carry in our lives. From brand names and sizes to roles and identities, labels can offer a sense of belonging and confidence, but they can also quietly limit how we see ourselves. Drawing from my experience in fashion, I reflect on how labels shape perception and why true style, both inside and out, begins when we stop letting them define us.
xo, Melanie

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As a new season begins, the unraveling slows. In this opening story of Season Two, I reflect on winter as a time of layering, protection, and quiet preparation. This episode is about dressing for warmth instead of performance, allowing life to soften, and trusting what is forming beneath the surface. Listen if you are craving rest, patience, and permission to move gently into what comes next.

Please share with me how this episode made you feel.

xo, Melanie

If anything in this story helped you a little, I’d love to hear from you.
email: unfashionedpod@gmail.com
ig: @unfashionedpod / @retrokandyvintage
tiktok: @unfashionedpod
website: https://feeds.transistor.fm/unfashioned
shop: https://www.retrokandyvintage.com
photographer: https://www.vickiberloffephotography.com/

As the season grows louder, the pressure to keep up grows louder too. In this final episode before the holiday pause, I explore how trends influence what we wear, how we show up, and how easily we lose touch with our own voice. This story is about noticing the noise and choosing to listen inward instead.

Listen if you are feeling the pull to conform and want permission to choose what feels true.

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xo, Melanie

If anything in this story helped you a little, I’d love to hear from you.
email: unfashionedpod@gmail.com
ig: @unfashionedpod / @retrokandyvintage
tiktok: @unfashionedpod
website: https://feeds.transistor.fm/unfashioned
shop: https://www.retrokandyvintage.com
photographer: https://www.vickiberloffephotography.com/

In this story, I begin choosing the style of the life I want to live now. After letting go of what no longer fit, I step into the try-on room and explore what feels true, supportive, and real. This episode is about experimenting with who you are becoming and allowing yourself to choose with honesty and intention.
xo, Melanie

If anything in this story helped you a little, I’d love to hear from you.
email: unfashionedpod@gmail.com
ig: @unfashionedpod / @retrokandyvintage
tiktok: @unfashionedpod
website: https://feeds.transistor.fm/unfashioned
shop: https://www.retrokandyvintage.com
photographer: https://www.vickiberloffephotography.com/

After the unraveling comes the moment when you finally see what stayed. In this story, I step back into the quiet of my own closet and notice the pieces that remained. It is a gentle look at what endures when everything else has fallen away.

Listen and be ready to discover what has lasted inside you too.

xo, Melanie

Please share with me how this episode made you feel.
email: unfashionedpod@gmail.com
ig: @unfashionedpod / @retrokandyvintage
tiktok: @unfashionedpod
website: https://feeds.transistor.fm/unfashioned
shop: https://www.retrokandyvintage.com
photographer: https://www.vickiberloffephotography.com

After the release comes the quiet. In this story, I talk about what happens when everything false falls away and you are left standing in the soft light of your own truth. It is the tender place between endings and beginnings.

Maybe being lost is not something to escape. Maybe it is the very place where you start finding your way back to who you are.
xo, Melanie

Please share your feelings about this episode with me.

email: unfashionedpod@gmail.com
ig: @unfashionedpod / @retrokandyvintage
tiktok: @unfashionedpod
website: https://feeds.transistor.fm/unfashioned
shop: https://www.retrokandyvintage.com
photographer: https://www.vickiberloffephotography.com

For this third story, I unravel the layers of identity I have dressed myself in. These are roles and costumes I have worn to feel safe, seen, or loved. It is about peeling back those layers and remembering who I am beneath them. It is the quiet reawakening that begins when I start to feel again. xo, Melanie

If this story helped you see the roles you have been wearing, let them gently unravel. Let the air touch your skin, and tell me what it brought up for you. I would love to hear.

email: unfashionedpod@gmail.com
ig: @unfashionedpod / @retrokandyvintage
tiktok: @unfashionedpod
website: https://feeds.transistor.fm/unfashioned
shop: https://www.retrokandyvintage.com
photographer: https://www.vickiberloffephotography.com

In this story, I open the closet doors a little wider and step into the confusion and difficulty of what it means to let go. It’s not the kind of clean out that ends in perfect piles or color-coordinated rows. It’s the kind where fabric and memory blur together, where we sort through the stories we’ve been wearing and decide what still feels like truth against our skin.

If you’ve ever held on a little too long to something that no longer fits, this one is for you.

xo, Melanie

If this story helped you start to unravel what no longer fits, I’d love to hear from you.
email: unfashionedpod@gmail.com
ig: @unfashionedpod / @retrokandyvintage
tiktok: @unfashionedpod
website: https://feeds.transistor.fm/unfashioned
shop: https://www.retrokandyvintage.com
photographer: https://www.vickiberloffephotography.com/