How to Look Like Money on the Social Scene in LA
Though I wasn’t ever one to get into the Lori Harvey hype, I will give it to the girl, whenever seeing her anywhere, she is well put together.
For the short period of time that she was a client I was assigned to assist, I found out her key to pulling off look after look successfully.
What is Lori Harvey’s secret to always looking good?
Whether it be an organic appeal, her adopted last name, or a strong publicist, little Ms. Lori began drawing major attention within recent years. (In all honesty, it’s majorly a combination of the latter two, but she still has to carry herself as a woman worthy of the buzz that’s drummed up for her.)
She said, "Oh, you rich rich?" ("You rich rich")
B*tch, I graduated, call me "Big Fish" (Marlin)
I got Lori Harvey on my wish list (That's Lori)
That's the only thing I want for Christmas (True story, uh)
Who is Lori Harvey?
Imagine typing that question into a search engine after hearing that lyric in a 2018 hit song and a sloppy mess of a girl appears in the images. You’d wonder if Meek Mill felt that Rick James quote on a personal level, or if he was paid handsomely to mention her. Even as each could still be true, most people could look at the image results and understand why a man would be attracted to her physical.
At a bare bones level, she isn’t a bad looking girl by far, but the way she fine tunes her look takes her to the next level. There is one major key to Lori Harvey’s look.
I’m good for holding you in other areas of this personal lifestyle blog, like when I get on my soapbox, but there’s no need to drag this simple suggestion out.
Thee one, easy step to make yourself look expensive is:
Alterations.
“I get everything tailored,” Lori told me one day as she tried on an Alexander Wang dress, standing all of two feet from my desk. I must’ve asked her if she wanted me to order her another size or something and she responded that this one was her size. “I make everything shorter, or tighter,” Steve Harvey’s stepdaughter continued with a smile and a giggle. And it made perfect sense. Everything she wears looks like it’s made just for her because it is.
Yep, that’s it. Now, it will cost you, but that’s all there is to it.
The likeliness of getting your entire wardrobe custom-tailored without being wealthy or famous is slim, unless you’re a seamstress or have less clothes than what can fit in Barbie’s miniature closet. It is expensive!
Alterations on this little black dress cost me $150, almost as much as the dress itself, but the end result will be worth it.
I said it was easy, not cheap.
I dropped off a dress at my local tailor today to wear to a dance theatre show tomorrow and my jaw dropped when they told me the price.
$150! Yes, one-hundred-fifty dollars to get a dress taken in. The clerk saw my expression and said, without me asking, “it’s lined, so it’s double the work, that’s why.” Baby, that price reminded me of my luxury retail days, bringing Lori’s pieces up to our in-house alterations department, where everything is skewed.
Expensive alterations may not be the best investment for trendy items.
There’s only a handful of items I’ve gotten altered.
And the aforementioned dress almost wasn’t one of ‘em! (I’m terribly accustomed to working in luxury retail, getting discounts, making it difficult for me to pay full price for anything.) But, I decided I’m willing to pay these luxury department store prices for this particular dress because I know it’s an item that will fit my body and my style for years and years to come. I’ve been wearing the same dress size since puberty, making it unlikely I’ll physically outgrow it anytime soon; and, it’s a classic piece that my style won’t outgrow either.
If you pay a couple hundred dollars to buy a dress, then another couple hundred to get a custom tailor fit to your body, that’s become a rather expensive dress, so you better look expensive!
I know it may sound too simple of a fix, and then expensive at that, but it does make a world of difference.
Lori Harvey can afford to have an entire wardrobe of custom-tailored clothing because she was legally adopted by a multimillionaire; and before her mom was involved with Steve Harvey, I ain’t saying she a gold digger, but she for damn sure wasn’t messing with no broke negro.
Also, Lori was one of the few clients we didn’t ever charge for alterations. It’s the funniest thing, rich people, that don’t need freebies, get the most freebies! Please take that into account before you go start trying to tailor everything. (Apply this concept to rocking this or that item, because a good amount of the items you see celebrities wearing are given to them. PR, child, PR! People will try to look/live like a celebrity not knowing that celebrity doesn’t even look/live like that celebrity. But that’s a blog post for another day.)
Getting clothes custom-tailored is nothing new to the wealthy. There some that often wouldn’t use the department store tailor because they have a personal tailor on their “team”.
Getting clothing custom-tailored is one of the most common, yet least talked about, way to make people look at you and think, “oh, you rich rich!”
You can start with one item, maybe a quality staple piece that can be worn for an array of occasions, such as a little black dress, how I was willing to splurge, or a navy blue suit.
Honey, after you pay what you paid for the dress all over again on alterations, you’ll have the right to tell them, “b*tch, I graduated; call me Big Fish!”
Okay, I said I wasn’t going to hold you all on this one, so let me let you go, but one last thing before I do.
It’s okay to be new to this. If you haven’t done it before, it’s okay to start now. And, it’s okay to start small.
I definitely wasn’t raised getting my items custom-tailored, nor seeing any adult figures in my personal life do such. Lori came from money, she had a head start. Some of us are just arriving at these expanded levels of life, and we fought tooth and nail to get here.
If nobody introduced you to a luxury lifestyle, if you didn’t grow up that way, it’s okay; you can introduce yourself. If you want it, and you worked hard for it, you should have it.
You’re here; that’s a start. You clicked on this article about looking more luxurious for a reason.
Where are you going? There’s no rush to do it all at once. Start implementing little luxuries into your life here and there. Enjoy the journey.
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