Who says labcoats have to be boring? Now you can maintain your professional image while adding style that distinguishes you as a holistic health practitioner.

Evosia’s labcoats are specifically designed for the natural healing professional in mind and incorporates features typical labcoats do not have:

* Choice of organic and fair trade natural fabrics to meet your environmental and health standards.
* Different fabric weights to meet your seasonal needs.
* Lighter fabrics in strategic locations to help you maintain your cool.
* Unique pocket partitioning system to keep your tools such as needles and ear seeds organized.
* Three different fits to suit your body type and personal style: flowy (loose) fit, standard fit and modern fit.
* Made to Measure and Bespoke options for those who want the perfect fit and design.

Evosia donates 5% of net profits toward social and environmental causes.

Link: Evosia’s Online Store Page

Evosia is an environmentally-conscious and socially-responsible holistic clothing and lifestyle company. We believe that clothes have the power to inspire, empower and heal. We combine style with substance, East with West, and ancient wisdom with modern sensibilities.

For thousands of years of recorded history, humans have recognized the power of clothing. Beyond mere function and visual aesthetics, clothes are storytellers. They tell about who we are — our personality, our outlook in the world, what we do and even our health. For the Daoists (Taoists) in ancient China, clothes help to create harmonious relationships between people, society and the environment. Materials, colors, shapes, silhouettes and patterns all have meaning. Woven together, they can enhance our personal and professional lives, as well as harmonize our relationship with the world around us.

Our products use organic natural fibers from fair trade sources. For more information about our social and environmental practices, please read about Evosia’s Global Commitment.

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As with most things in life, practice makes perfect in the realm of knowing how to dress. Even if you don’t need to wear business clothes in the foreseeable future, get a head start now. Start shopping for the clothes you will need. Start dressing up. This way you’ll get comfortable wearing business clothes and you’ll have a better understanding of how things go together.

For most of my life I didn’t need to dress up. I was accustomed to wearing loose fitting and flowy clothes like Hawaiian shirts and Thai fisherman pants. Yes I did have a lot of preppy clothes but they’re preppy, not business. The only times I really dressed up were for graduations, weddings, and funerals. And looking back on those photos I looked awful because I was clueless. Luckily most other people in the world are also clueless. Which means you’ll really standout when you get it right.

When I first started sporting dress shirts and ties on a regular basis, I felt like a fish out of water. I remember having trouble tying my tie. I bought shirts and trousers that didn’t fit well. I wore the wrong fabrics in the wrong seasons. My neck wasn’t used to having my shirts buttoned up all the way. Overall the outfits didn’t feel like they were my personal style.

By the time I got into the clinic I had most of the kinks ironed out: I had the dress clothes I wanted, I no longer felt awkward in what I wore, and I knew how to put together kickass outfits from head to toe.

There are a lot of nuances you simply won’t appreciate until you start getting it all together. You’ll overdo it and under do it until you find your balance. So get to it! Your future starts now.

Hurray! Evosia’s sexy new business cards are done! Let’s party.

The Importance of a Tailor in the Age of Ready to Wear Clothing

Our bodies come in a wide variety of shapes and measurements. The mass produced clothes that most of us wear (also known as Ready To Wear or RTW clothing) attempt to simplify these broad ranges into a limited set of standardized sizes. While we can usually go into a store and walk out wearing something we just bought off the rack, ready to wear clothing is not designed to fit all of us perfectly.

For casual and street clothes, a perfect fit may not be that important. A half-inch off here, an inch off there is good enough. You can cover it with a sweater/jacket or adjust with a belt. But if you want to look professional, small details do matter. An outfit that fits perfectly brings congruence. It doesn’t just look good, but it also feels great.

An experienced and skilled tailor can help turn your ordinary outfit into something that looks and feels extraordinary.

Common areas of clothing to get altered
Refer to my previous tip (part 1 and part 2) on wearing clothes that fit to learn about how things should fit on you. Here are some common things to get altered by a tailor:

• Hem your pants. You should not be sweeping floors with your pants for free.
• Take in the waist. Your pants/trousers should stay up without the assistance of a belt.
• Take in a shirt or the body of a jacket. If you are a thinner build like me, you don’t always want to look like you can shoplift watermelons.
• Shorten the sleeves. The sleeves should cover your wrists and just reach the beginning of your thumbs. You shouldn’t be able to shoplift watermelons in your sleeves either.

Buying Ready to Wear Clothes
If you are buying ready to wear clothes that you want to bring to a tailor, keep in mind that a tailor cannot create additional fabric out of thin air. Don’t buy anything that’s too tight or too short unless you know there is enough fabric to let out. You want to buy stuff that fit as close to your measurements as possible.

Getting Clothes Tailor Made
If you are paying retail prices for dress clothes at midlevel retailers such as Banana Republic, J Crew, or Nordstroms, chances are that you can afford tailor made clothing. Yes, clothes made specifically to your measurements and what you want. Modern Tailor is one place that comes recommended. If you are in Asia, Hong Kong is an especially good place to go for high quality tailor made clothes at prices midlevel retailers can’t touch even during a good sale.

Finding a good tailor
A good tailor isn’t just someone who can do a good job tailoring your clothes. A good tailor is knowledgeable about fabrics, fits, trends and, most importantly, what looks good on you. A good tailor is not easy to find and they most likely do not work out of your local dry cleaners. Yes they may be more expensive than having something done at the dry cleaners but you get so much more value when you develop a good relationship with them.

If you are on the west side of Los Angeles, I highly recommend Anna’s Custom Tailoring on Washington and Redwood. She’s a sweet Italian lady who is highly skilled and very knowledgeable. I also suggest checking on Yelp.com for good tailors near you.

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