

8 May 2026 · 32m · 11 chapters

A parenting-and-style Q&A with Amber Jackson answering questions on dressing for weddings while breastfeeding, festival/flower-show outfits, building a capsule wardrobe, shoes for spring/summer, and what to wear when you’ve lost confidence postpartum. She argues for practical, confidence-boosting choices (e.g., power suits with breastfeeding access, waterproof festival footwear, steaming instead of ironing, and avoiding trends that don’t flatter). Notable examples include: buttoned dresses or tailored suits for weddings; waterproof walking boots for Glastonbury; sequins and mini dresses for festivals; Chelsea Flower Show florals/pastel suiting; using felt hangers and Pinterest “wardrobe grids” to plan capsules; checking fabric (favoring cotton/linen mixes over polyester); and shopping tips like using ASOS save/like to refine recommendations.
Amber Jackson, ex-fashion editor at This Morning (10 years), stylist and freelance since last year; mum to toddler Huxley (about 1.5 years old).
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Introduction of guest Amber Jackson and her background.
“The gym I went into yesterday got my kit out and I was like oh my trainers aren't in there I went, were any trainers handed in yesterday?”
Amber discusses her shift from a full-time job to freelance work.
“but not enough to fly back from my vehicle's horse, which is pretty rude.”
Amber shares tips on what to wear to a wedding while breastfeeding.
Advice on practical and stylish outfits for festivals.
Amber suggests outfit ideas for attending the Chelsea Flower Show.
Amber discusses tips on creating a functional capsule wardrobe.
“There's some really nice felt hangers that you can have clothes and shirts and trousers over the bar in the middle, which helps me outfit plan really easily.”
Discover tips for dressing confidently, especially for special occasions.
“The gym I went into yesterday, got my kit out and I was like, oh, my trainers aren't in there.”
Explore the best online and in-store shopping options for fashion.
Learn effective strategies for shopping on ASOS and H&M to find your style.
“If you like it, then they're going to be, oh, okay, she's looking for a white boho peasant blouse.”
Discover how to shop for stylish and affordable kids' clothing.
“So vintage is like number one, especially for nursery.”
Find out how to use vintage shopping effectively for better deals.

Get the gist, explore an idea or ask about something said.
On Made by Mammas: The Podcast, what are the key points of this episode?
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0:34This week on Help I Sexted My Boss Daddy Pig ran it Isn't he one of your mates around Soto? Yeah he says hello Hasn't seen you in a while The gym I went into yesterday got my kit out and I was like oh my trainers aren't in there I went, were any trainers handed in yesterday? And he went yeah one What do we do? Hop I was faced with my mum laid on her back and my boyfriend... Oh, I can't read that, Jack. Listen and watch wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome to Made by Mamas, the podcast. I'm Zoe Hardman. And I'm Georgia Dayton. And this is your parenting safe space where no conversation is off limits.
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1:53Priorities? Joining us on the podcast today, ex-fashion editor at This Morning, stylist, mum of one, it is Amber Jackson.
2:03Amber Jackson: Hello, thank you so much for having me. Now, I've obviously just given a little bit of background into who you are. We actually know each other from day jobs as well, don't we? Yes, we do, we do. I've known Amber for a long time, but do you just want to let the listeners know just a little bit about you first? Yeah, of course. So yeah, for the last 16 years, I have been at This Morning. so the last 10 of those I was the fashion editor and yeah I had my little boy Huxley a year and a half ago I don't know where that time's gone and I went back to Matt back from Matt Lee last year and then just quickly decided it was probably time you know I wanted to spend more time with Huxley and I just had to take the big leap and go freelance I thought what better time than you know when you've got a toddler at home I didn't want to miss those important milestones and pick up and drop off and all those things so yeah I have to sound as delve into the world of freelance and you know this morning I was dressing models all different shapes and sizes working with Trini and Gok, styling Rochelle and Lisa for the show and I'm just hoping to take that into my new my new life kind of hosting events you know content creation it's a big scary world but I'm you know really really excited for it really I think I've gone from like big fish small pond yeah to small fish humongous pond and there's still so much to learn about it all but it's exciting and I'm loving the freedom loving being able to like literally multitasking like the baby's napping right now as we speak so you know the juggle is real but I actually found the drug the juggle when I was at this morning so much harder obviously commuting to London and stuff like that anyway but um yeah I mean you don't have a kid to spend you know nine ten hours a day is so hard to leave them for so yeah I was lucky to be in the position that I could go freelance so here we are yeah and you really know your stuff which is honestly why we wanted to get you on today because we do these fashion q a's every every three months four months something like that because something that our audience find is you know when you become a mom or like even just like changes in times of your life really yeah can sometimes find it really difficult like at one point you know how to dress yourself and then another time you feel totally lost so we absolutely got a load of questions in and we're going to do our best to answer them well amber you are anyway if i've seen the thing you know while I've been scrolling I'll also jump in but um let's kick off so this I mean I think this one's probably going to come up a lot what to wear to a wedding when breastfeeding that isn't a wrap dress that that that handy wrap dress that isn't ideal for everyone um do you know I thought I could dress myself until it came to breastfeeding I didn't know if I was going to breastfeed so it didn't really occur to me until I was doing it that I had to really kind of change my wardrobe to fit in with that um for a wedding it's tricky obviously because you have to be a certain dress code I buttons were my best friend personally I went for um rather than a wrap because also you do kind of feel like you're pretty much getting everything out um I would go I would go for a dress or something with buttons such anything easy access I didn't love breastfeeding friendly clothes I thought H &M Mama I thought had a nice selection but other than that I really struggled I really found like it was suddenly you were just frumpy and you know 60 years old in these awful floral wrap dresses so I totally understand why she doesn't want to go for a wrap dress another alternative if you can't find the right dress with buttons is to go for a suit like a lovely tailoring in a pastel tone there's so many on the high street and if you're wearing like a really loose vest or even like a breastfeeding vest underneath you necessarily wouldn't even know you could almost use the blazer to kind of cover cover up as well and then breastfeed under the blazer and with the vest that would probably be my go-to personally because you've kind of got the comfort of being covered up because you know it depends how you feel and what kind of wedding it is if you're if you're surrounded by family some people you know don't mind breastfeeding in public but some people may want a bit of um privacy so i personally would go for a really lovely tailored suit it can be it'd be really flattering if you go for something high-waisted it's going to kind of um yeah make you feel because you don't want to feel frumpy you want to feel kind of suited and booted so that's why i would opt for a suit um i'm trying to think of where I've seen some really good ones recently um I will come back but uh yeah and you can get them in so many different colors now like suits back in the day with like navy black gray pinstripe yeah um but now you can get really gorgeous like pink and lemons um suiting so yeah River Island always good for yes you're right River Island's really good for tailoring um and you know you could do you've got the waistcoat as well you could always do a waistcoat and um because again you're just looking for the easy access so can i smart waistcoat and trousers would look really good and you could just use like a muzzy or something um to cover up if that's what you wanted to do but yeah i feel like breastfeeding dresses and wrap dresses kind of just align with just feeling a bit frumpy and when if you're not all if you haven't really got your confidence back after having a baby you don't want to be sat in a dress that you feel rubbish in either um so yeah my thing would be power suit feel confident and and just be savvy with the vest top that you wear underneath it so you can get easy access love that um festival dressing what should i wear this season i need all weather all well you do need your weather whatever the weather you need all weather i would say definitely invest in the practical staff do not buy a pair of i'm just thinking of glass and because that was the last festival i went to but to be fair even if you're going to a london-based festival there's so much walking like you walk from the tube you're dancing all night then you have to normally walk about four tubes to get home anyway um so do not buy a pair of boots you've never worn before and i hope for the best like wear them in go for comfort like if you're going for like a london-based a train a london-based festival or a local festival a trainer your comfy trainers would be absolutely fine but if you're going somewhere like Glastonbury I would definitely invest in a good waterproof even like a walking boot just something that's going to see you the the amount of steps you do at these all-day festivals is astonishing so I would definitely invest in shoes and also I'd probably invest in um a jacket as well and and the raincoat is so important I always love going to regatta for stuff like that I think it's um like my go-to for those kind of practical things and they do really nice prints they're not boring um and then underneath I would just go for fun I'd go for sequins avoid jumpsuits or playsuits because you don't think about it until you're in a port-a-loo and you think oh my god everything I'm wearing is going to have to touch the floor awful um so yeah I would I mean my go-to at a festival is like a mini dress it's just really easy it's warm if it rains your legs are going to dry quick if it's warm you can get a bit of tan maybe like a cycling short or kind of yeah boxer short brief underneath it if you do fancy going on someone's shoulders you never know you've got to dress for everything and yeah just embrace sequins especially if you're going to rest and break like fitter and glitter like after you know you're three days in you've not had a shower glitter on your face cover yourself in sequins no one's looking at your face that way everyone's distracted by your amazing outfit that's so louder louder the better basically absolutely we'll be right back after this short break
10:10welcome to the girls bathroom the podcast where no topic is off limits no matter how unhinged it may be i'm sophia i'm chintzia and we are your girls talking love i'm not his mother been there girl live i caught my boss slagging me off on whatsapp to apply friendship and everything in between this is thrilling watch and listen every wednesday on youtube and wherever you get your podcasts we're waiting for you in the girl's bathroom welcome back to this episode of made by mamas now where were we i'm going to the chelsea flower show what do i wear oh lucky you
10:52Amber Jackson: um I've been to the Chelsea Flower Show and do you know what just embrace the floors I would go floors and I would go if you're not a floral gal I would actually go again for like the kind of pastel suiting because if you veer way too far from that you just look like you don't want to be there you know you may as well embrace it everyone's in gorgeous like floral dresses and bright colors so I would just go for that um arrange at ASOS do some really cool kind of loud bold floral prints um I'd go for something like that or again yeah if you're not really into that vibe just like something in a color um you could just go for like a loud trouser and a big white shirt or something if that's not if you know if bright if uh prints aren't your vibe but I would definitely embrace the color because everyone just looks really chic and just like a cool a cool coat on your shoulders something not um quite long that's what I would I always love a nobody's child dress the shape absolutely basically suits pretty much everyone those dresses yeah little I don't know a sweet hot neck type of thing but yeah they're great aren't they just so many of them nobody's child dresses have pockets as well which I just think is so good especially being a toddler mom having a pocket didn't think I realized how much I needed a pocket as well a bugbear with that they always look creased in the shop I don't know if you've know they always look it doesn't make like it doesn't show them off to their full potential so I think if you like them take them home and steam them and then you'll like oh my god look because they're always creased and they're awful absolutely a steamer is my best friend I haven't ironed anything in about 20 years I steam everything I even steam some of Huxley's stuff but a steamer if you do not have a steamer invest in one because like even when we travel you can get them really cheap on Amazon we've got a nice steamery one that we've got at home but we've just got one I think it was 20 pounds from Amazon and it just we do like my husband does his stuff it it's life-changing it makes such a difference in and especially like if you're wearing a dress with pockets or trousers with pockets and all the pockets like crumple up if you don't have a steamer get one stylist orders and best way to build up a capsule wardrobe for work out of work light them separate so I wouldn't if you'd asked me a year ago I'd be like cups of wardrobes no like just wear what you want to wear but I do understand it when you are a busy mom or you know someone that works every day and you know they wake when I was commuting to London and waking up every night I was trying to plan the next outfit and I was like oh I'm not even out of these clothes yet and I actually think there's so much to say about being organized and having it I would say invest in your hangers.
13:41Amber Jackson: There's some really nice felt hangers that you can have clothes and shirts and trousers over the bar in the middle, which helps me outfit plan really easily. There's also, there's a few influencers that I follow that are so good at this. The Anna Edit, Sam Preston, Emma Rose Thatcher, they are like the queens of having that Pinterest wardrobe. I'd actually say Pinterest is a really good place to start as well. If you write and capture wardrobe into Pinterest it will literally tell you you know four shirts four pairs of trousers two pairs of shoes two blazers it is very personal to the life you lead like my capsule wardrobe could be very different to yours but I would start with knowing again knowing what you've got have a cleanse hang up hang up what you've got and then maybe every Sunday kind of put together a capsule wardrobe for that week at least um and then you can fill the gaps like if you realize you have only got like one white shirt and you maybe want like a blue striped shirt and maybe a denim shirt then you can fill the gaps after you've organized don't try and buy a capsule wardrobe when you've got a wardrobe full of clothes you need to cleanse restart and then fill the gaps you know and I was guilty of it when I had my wardrobe so I had something like 16 pairs of black trousers like no one needs that I'm not wearing you know two weeks worth of black trousers in a month so you know I went down to like an elastic waistband a wide leg a side stripe and then you think well what else do I need after that really maybe a fourth I definitely kept six um but you you know you look at what you've got and you realize that it's crazy that I've got that many and then maybe you go oh my god I don't actually have any khaki trousers or I don't have white jean and then you can fill the gaps and you don't necessarily need to spend a fortune to fill those gaps you can fill them from Primark and Sainsbury's and Tesco's you know though just because I always said on this morning like just because you're paying less doesn't mean those pieces can't be forever pieces you know stuff from Primark and Sainsbury's and Tesco's they're still 100 % cotton they've still got really good materials in them I sometimes better than Zara like you go to zara and you buy it it's 50 pounds and you realize it's 80 polyester i'm of an age where i avoid polyester like the plague like i always check my materials and i think that's really important because you actually realize what you're spending your money on um and if you can find like a lovely like linen cotton mix shirt in tesco with your weekly shop that can be a forever piece 100 if you look after it and wash it well so and vintage obviously my my best friend like you can you can find everything you need on vintage it can be really overwhelming so you've got to use your filters i'm literally like brand new with tags these brands this size this color and that that helps a little bit um but yeah i would definitely start with knowing what you've got in your wardrobe and then filling the gaps and definitely check out those influences i keep seeing people post about this um it's like a grid and it's got yeah the sudoku and i'm like that's what i need to do because packing like a capsule wardrobe whether it's like for a work trip or like you know a weekend is so cool but if you when you look at it like you're at that you're like oh wow that's so yeah and that's the thing if you have a capsule wardrobe everything in your wardrobe should work with each other rather than just having like loads of stripes and loads of floors and loads of this if you have it all defined you know that if you have that white shirt and a denim shirt say they'll go with your khaki trousers your white jeans and and your slip skirt so then you've got automatically five outfits and you've only packed five things also co-ords are your best friend when it comes to packing especially with holidays because you know you've got three outfits to go just by just from two pieces because you obviously you can wear them together and wear them apart so um i think when you go on holiday also actually going back it's that wedding question a cold could be really good for breastfeeding mom because you've got the over you've got the buttons as well but they can be tricky because they do automatically they can either look pyjama-y or beachy so you'd have to wear it with a high heel and you know probably dress it up quite a bit but again river island does a cold very well do you have any recommendations for spring summer shoes to wear with skirts and dresses um so i would say i've seen these kind of like mash but mesh ballet pumps everywhere I'd foot and like the jelly shoes have you seen the like red and turtle shell ones from M &S I'm into them like in my head I'm thinking of like a white cotton kind of a-line poplin skirt I feel like they would look really good with the kind of jelly shoes um I love a chunky sandal with like the double buckles um and I do love a trainer I don't think there's anything wrong with wearing a dress with trainers um especially if you kind of go for a fashion forward trainer like an adidas gazelle or a new balance they are gonna again it comes back to comfort for me i'm just that as long as i can walk around a park or do a loop around a field with a pushchair i'm happy um and i think ballet pumps you can they can be tricky because they're so flat um whereas trainers and like the chunky sandals you've got a bit more bounce um so again it depends how kind of delicate and ladylike you want to go but i would i personally would go for like a buckled buckled sandal and and a comfy trainer um you're talking to a girl who's got like size eight and a half shoes feet so i like m &s and asos are really my go-to personally um because i just think they fit well um i think m &s do do a good comfy shoe i say new look and necks do really comfortable shoes as well necks do i can't remember what those is called is it called forever comfort i think new looks is called forever comfort and necks is called something else but they almost have like these like bouncy cushioned soles so I would definitely go for those kind of brands that really put in the effort to make a shoe comfortable I mean I wouldn't like to say to avoid places but places like you like your PLTs your boohoo sheans or whatever it's called they're gonna just be making them in the most basic way and I think when you're looking for comfort and you want something to really wear you want to get something with a bit more something a bit more substantial I just think if you're wearing a flat shoe you're wearing a shoe for comfort really and so if it's not comfortable what's the point and like I remember buying some when I was younger from Topshop I'm ironically I was out prepping for this morning and whatever shoes I was wearing were rubbing so I bought these ballet pumps for comfort and I think I lasted one shot because they were so flat I could literally feel the bumps on the pavement.
20:30It was like a proper Amy Winehouse, like ballerina pump. And honestly, I took them back immediately. They were so uncomfortable. So yeah, if you're going to go flat, go for a comfortable flat. We'll be right back after this short break.
20:48This week on Help, I Sexted My Boss. Daddy Pig ran it. Isn't he one of your mates around Soto? Yeah, he says hello. Hasn't seen you in a while. The gym I went into yesterday, got my kit out and I was like, oh, my trainers aren't in there. I went, were any trainers handed in yesterday? And he went, yeah, one. So what do we do? Hop. I was faced with my mum laid on her back and my boyfriend... Oh, I can't read that, Jack. Listen and watch wherever you get your podcasts.
21:21Welcome back to this episode of Made by Mamas. Now, where were we? um advice for dressing when you just don't feel confident anymore for example like a wedding guest or a night out that sort of thing i would say if you're if you've if you've lost your confidence i would say avoid trends i think it's very easy to be overwhelmed by influencers and magazines about you know polka dots polka dots polka dots if you don't like polka dots or you
21:50Amber Jackson: don't find them flattering on yourself you don't have to wear them you know these balloon trousers bowel leg jeans there are so many trends out there that don't suit everyone or not everyone feels great in them so I would say ditch the trends really think about what you love about your body and maybe what you don't like like if you are if you like your arms and you're all conscious of your tummy think about those things when you're buying your clothes like I don't love like the top of my legs I wouldn't you'd never see me in like a short or a mini skirt um but midi skirts I love and then you kind of accentuate the bits that you do love so once so maybe wear black something dark on the bottom if that's not where you want the attention and there's some wear something bright and comfortable on the top so to distract the eye um because if you yeah if you're conscious of your tummy you it's really difficult because you want to wear maybe like say an oversized shirt but then you feel quite big so like just think about ways of maybe wearing a vest top underneath and opening the shirt um and just be and just be aware of like colors like I just you know when you're walking down the street and there's someone in front of you wearing like a beige legging and you just think you look like you've got no trousers on yeah um so i would just think about fit is really key when you've lost your confidence and i think you know i've been living yeah i'm literally wearing them still now i lived since the day i gave birth in an elastic waistband or drawstring trouser but there are so many styles out there that they can be they can still look really smart like these are like a khaki i'm not going to get out there's a like a khaki combat trouser and just because they've got an elastic waistband they're still really smart and again with like a denim shirt or a blazer on top you can automatically feel a bit more put together and I think yeah like shoulder pads um are really good for like adding a bit of structure if you're conscious of your waist it kind of if you feel like you've got big hips say if you it sounds like the wrong way around but if you put shoulder pads in you can balance out your your kind of hips and shoulders so you don't feel too top heavy um I think belts are really great if you want to kind of cinch in your waist I think people are really quick to kind of run away from their body and cover up and go oversized and big but actually sometimes showing off what you've got makes you feel better I love the lace shorts that are everywhere at the moment but would love to know how to style okay I would love to know yeah I do love those lace shorts and again it's coming from someone that I don't love the top of my legs I find like I have definitely have that like chafing situation so I personally would probably size up on them so you've got a bit of length because if you wear because also again a lot of them are drawstring because they're almost like lingerie aren't they so if you wear them say I bought like a size 16 you can wear them a bit lower tie them tight so they fit around your waist but then you may just be able to um add like an extra inch onto the bottom so that they are that little bit longer that would automatically make me feel a bit more comfortable wearing them I think at night I'd probably wear them with like a little kitten healy slingbacky thong heel and probably the good old big oversized huge oversized blazer so even maybe to the point from behind doesn't even look like you're wearing any shorts something like quite boxy and then like it like something quite like tight and like a little cami or little vest top underneath and again probably have the blazer um uh sleeves rolled up or it's in that hack where you put like an elastic waistband in your or hairband in your blazer and you can kind of ruche it all up and keep it up all night which is really good um and then for the day i'd probably wear it with like yeah i sound like a broken record but with like a big denim oversized shirt and a and a slider how do you balance comfort and practicality with style i feel like i'm i feel like what i've kind of said about that kind of elastic waistband the kind is comfort you've just got to be comfortable comfortable if you want if practical I mean I wore this to the park today which probably wasn't very practical because wearing a white t-shirt with a sticky fiddle sticky sticky finger toddler wasn't my best wasn't my best option um but I think um you've just got to um think about what what works for you, what you've got coming in that day.
26:28Amber Jackson: And, you know, you don't have to wear something different every day. Like you don't have to have, um, you can have your favorites and you can wear them, you know, different ways. Like, again, if you've got those firebird Adidas trousers, if you go on Instagram or Pinterest, you'll easily be able to find like five ways to wear. I should probably do that actually on my Instagram. Um, and then you can just kind of get inspiration for for wearing the things that you love and you're comfortable in multiple ways um because there's nothing wrong like with where you know getting the most out of your wardrobe wearing your wardrobe I think there's a stat something like we wear like 20 % of the clothes we own which is terrible yeah it's what do you know what I'm so guilty of that because I just wear like as it almost goes back in the wardrobes the first thing that's gone back in it comes back out again and then it goes yeah like the washing pile goes from the bed straight onto your body then straight into the wash again yeah yeah exactly where like what are your favorite places to shop now like five like online in like stores whatever five places i would say the places that i kind of keep my eye on see what's coming in don't want to miss you know the new thing i love to be to be honest i do love asos i think asos can again can be quite overwhelming but the more you use it it knows what you like um and where i've like prepped for the fashion items and for rachel and lisa on that account it definitely throws to me the stuff that um they they think i'll want rather than just um like just everything yeah it kind of tailor makes it to you so i would say if you're on places like asos and you find it really overwhelming use that save or like button because the more you like and save, the more ASOS is going to learn what you want or what your vibe is, even if you know you're not going to buy it.
28:23If you like it, then they're going to be, oh, okay, she's looking for a white boho peasant blouse. We'll give her more of those in the future. So I think if you know how to use ASOS, it can be great. I think H &M is very good. And I do love H &M, but my problem with H &M is I get, taken over by their styling you know you're like oh my god that is incredible and then it comes and you're like oh is this is this it um so I do love H &M but I would say I end up buying a lot and returning a lot um but it is one that I keep an eye on just so I know kind of what people are shopping for uh obviously Marks and Spencer's the absolute hero of the hour again they're really good at um sending you stuff that they think that you'll like if you if you use it very well um but i just think mns can do no wrong and i hate being another one of those influencers that's just like mns mns um and you know what i really love next as well i think next in the store is
29:26Amber Jackson: pretty rubbish the local one to us they just try you know they've only got one floor and they just try and throw everything into it knitwear coats swimwear at the back bras and it's just a tiny thing so I would say definitely online next if you're not a next kind of gal don't think that what they have in store is their best stuff like Rochelle doesn't edit for next which is really good so um you can always type in Rochelle to get an idea of stuff but just if like if you write in like tailoring or um you know structured dresses whatever your kind of that vibe to again put together a little idea I just think they do really good like one-offs that you're like oh my god that are so good and as I said before their shoes are they fit well and they're actually really comfortable yeah I was gonna say next I always end up getting a little floral jacket from next and it's not and I don't know why but it's not one that you'll see like a million people no because that's the problem isn't it like if it's a Zara one or or even an M &S one like you know you're gonna see like every other person on the school run yeah that's so true and just before we go because we're running at prime where are you shopping for Huxley oh my god that little guy I mean boring vintage obviously I do vintage for nursery stuff like I search for like you know the age group boys bundle and I like to get like a bundle of you know you can get like four tops four trousers whatever for a tenner and then I'll search for the brand brands I'll just do like Zara, H &M, M &S, make sure you get the good stuff.
31:04So vintage is like number one, especially for nursery. But for the nice stuff, again, Next Kids. But what I would say about Next Kids is I'm very
31:13Amber Jackson: lucky because he's under three. I have a feeling that over three, it's all going to get quite green and gray. But I would say you don't have to shop in the boys section for boys. I just bought some of really lovely jeans for Huxley they're white with stars all over them they're from the girls section but doesn't matter Zara I think Zara kids is great and I love Zara because it gives you some color again I buy a lot of um just oversized t-shirts I always size up about two age groups for Huxley when it comes to um t-shirts just they're really kind of oversized you're going to get so much more um longevity out of them um but I do I just don't understand why more brands don't just have unisex kids you could do unisex zero to five easily of just yeah colorful you know fruit you know cartoons whatever stars and just make it work stripes there was some really cute little purple and pink striped trousers the next day I was like Huxley I could definitely get them for Huxley um yeah but it is a shame I actually went to Matalan the other day and they had some really good bits um and but i finally come up quite small i size up quite a bit and i think the more you shop for your kids you realize the sizing like again tesco kids for me i'd have to size up about three sizes for huxley yeah i don't know why maybe he's just quite long-legged um but yeah the supermarkets matalan h m not h m uh next and m and s m and s is good for um like they do like an outfit so do like a trouser a jumper and a gilet for 20 quid or 24 quid and also don't forget like if you're in store and you love what they've got in mls take a photo of it you can search on vintage via photos more often than not you'll find it like even if it's two or three pounds cheaper four pound cheaper i mean i sound like such a this is not an ad for vintage in any way by the way i just think if you're savvy with vintage and that research thing with the camera is fantastic I use it a lot as well when you know when influencers are like comment shop and I'll send you the link I'm like no I refuse to do that so I just screenshot the picture and search for it on google lens no no no I know exactly what you mean but if you guys have got any more questions I'm sure Amber won't mind answering them of course where can people find you so I'm Amber styled it on instagrams I think lots of people think it's amber style edit but there's any one e so it's amber styled it and what i'll do as well um over the weekend i'll do a little shopping edit as well of things that we've mentioned today and um yeah just like new mum stuff things that will help with the capture wardrobe and they are just using some products because it's so hard to answer um questions without showing products so i'll do some of that over the over the weekend thanks so much to everyone listening if you have liked this episode we would love you to rate review and subscribe if you've got any feedback we can drop us a dm on instagram we are on at made by mummers and we'll be back on tuesday
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This week on Made By Mammas, we’re joined by fashion stylist and former This Morning fashion editor, Amber Jackson for a Friday Q&A all about style, confidence, and dressing both you and your little ones.
From creating easy everyday outfits to navigating kids’ fashion without the stress, Amber shares practical tips for building confidence through what you wear.
The gremlins were in the microphones today and the audio isn't as clean as we'd like, but the content is top class, and if you want tips on fashion, you have to listen to this!
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