Staying Striped with Amalli Talli

Yesterday we took a stand for tall. I’ve seen the unpopular opinion memes floating around and was inspired to write my own. If you missed it, click here. Inevitably, it will offend someone. That’s ok, not my intent. People need to be educated on how to speak/interact with others, so I grabbed the opportunity. If you want to talk about it further, please feel free to leave a comment below on your own experiences! The lighter portion of yesterday’s post was also finding a new favorite pair of jeans from Height of Fashion.

But today we’re back to our recent favorite topic, which is Amalli Talli! You’re probably wondering if we have everything from their store by now. The answer is, not yet, but we’re trying our very best to catch up. Hopefully you feel the authenticity when we speak about Amalli Talli and continuously buy their clothing. You will feel like your best self in their clothing. What that means to me, is not worrying about your clothing because it’s a seamless fit.

We love clothing and shopping, but don’t really consider ourselves fashionistas. I’d call us more fashion appreciators. The best part about fashion is picking and choosing what suits you. Everyone has a life unique to themselves. Meaning depending on your events and work, it might not make sense to buy “fancy” items. Especially in Wisconsin, we’re considered the strange ones showing up “overdressed.” I use quotations purposely, because overdressed is more a mindset than anything else.

One of the best takeaways from starting the blog, is figuring out what works well for us in our style journey. I’ve heard so many women say “this won’t work on me,” or “I can never wear that.” Subsequently, they’ll restrict themselves from even trying it on or testing it out.  Fashion is for everyone, not just who you’re accustomed to finding in magazines or ads.

We hope to encourage our tall sisters but really anyone reading this to feel a bit more confident to go out and try on something that you admire. The second part to being the sizing. I cannot emphasize this enough; don’t worry about sizing up. I guarantee you will feel more comfortable, and it will fit better, which will lead to you feeling incredible and more confident. Size is just a number. Let me repeat it again. Size is JUST a number. It’s completely pointless to buy a certain size just to claim you fit into it, and never wear the item.

That leads us (in a roundabout way) into these items from Amalli Talli. I’ve long admired t-shirt dresses, but never felt like it was a look for tall women. Mainly because a shirt dress connotative of Tom Cruise in his tighty whitey underwear, aka it being too short to be appropriate. In reality, all I needed was the right company to come along and take on the challenge of making it fit appropriately. Amalli Talli to the rescue!

A couple of key notes on this fit. I would recommend sizing up, especially if you have curves like us. As with most dresses, if you have a bigger butt it will pull up the back. This t-shirt dress feels super luxe. The fabric is so soft and stretchy!  Plus it is double lined. We always appreciate that extra layer so it’s not super clingy. This dress is so versatile, the perfect travel companion. It’s actually Caitlin’s dress, so we’ll be showcasing her in it very shortly in another remixed option!

Caitlin wore her Striped Duster in a super casual but chic look by wearing all black underneath. She has gotten so much use out of this duster already. As you can tell, not only is the length wonderful, but the sleeves are amazing as well. I can attest to the sleeves working really nicely on my arms as well. Again, the fabric feels really nice. It holds a flattering shape but is stretchy enough to layer it quite easily.

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A lot of times we have had to size up in dusters to get the length we wanted, and ended up sacrificing the shape. That is probably the best part about this duster, is how flattering the upper body fits. Y’all this duster will take you to work, and keep you warm all day in your arctic environment. Then it will take you to dinner or drinks dressed down just as easily. We love how they paired it with the Selby midi dress from their site as well. It’s inevitable that will end up in our closets as well!

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Let us know below if you’ve tested out Amalli Talli yet! Are you into the striped pieces and/or dusters? If we didn’t catch your attention last week with the Malibu Maxi, Palisade Jumpsuit, or Vernon Jumpsuit; maybe we did today? If this is true you can still use THEREALTALL15 for 15% off your purchase!