5 Women Style the Same White T-Shirt (Sizes XS to XXL)

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From sizes XS to XXL, five women attempt to style an outfit from the same Uniqlo oversized white t-shirt, using their personal wardrobe.

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00:00It is really challenging to shop these days.

00:02It's not easy, it's not fun, it's cardio, you're sweating.

00:21Ta-da! We have the first outfit option.

00:24I aspire, I dream to be more like Kramer from Seinfeld.

00:29It's always like a lot of patterns,

00:31a lot of like different types of fit and textures.

00:35Dun dun dun! Here's my closet.

00:38I did not know right away what I would wear with the t-shirt.

00:44I never know what I'm gonna wear in advance.

00:47I never really deliberate that much.

00:50Most of my clothes are thrifted,

00:53where it's like you know some 70s something I'm channeling Cher

00:56or I'm you know doing something like Twiggy from the 60s something mod.

01:01I would say like one of my biggest challenges is just

01:04trying to fit into clothes as a modern boned woman.

01:09Let's just say that my body shape is a little bit tough for some of the older looks.

01:16A lot of times I'll find a dress that fits my bust, fits my waist, I'm so excited,

01:19and then I just like get into it.

01:22When things feel really tight around my sort of hip area it just makes me feel really uncomfortable.

01:28So I try to dress with things that cinch around the waist and are a little flowy.

01:32And I think it was Coco Chanel who said like take off the last accessory that you put on.

01:36So I always pile it on.

01:38It's vibing a little bit like I'm trying to be too hard on this one.

01:42Okay okay this is getting my juices flowing.

01:46I knew that I wanted to bring shape to it because when I wore it it actually went up to my like mid thigh.

01:52All right and I'm not that tall of a person so I was trying to figure out how can I bring shape

01:58and bring height and bring texture and still accentuate my waist a little bit.

02:02I would say my body type is like an hourglass rectangle like not fully one or the other.

02:08I'm a little insecure about my belly.

02:10It can be kind of hard to figure out what looks good on you when you're a little bit curvier.

02:14That's something that takes a little bit of trial and error.

02:17Okay so this is a 3XL top.

02:21I like my clothes as big and wide as possible.

02:25And I really like how baggy it is.

02:28I don't want to be constricted.

02:31Sometimes my style can be a bit tomboyish.

02:35Tiana Taylor when it comes to clothing she can dress on a masculine side but also switch it up

02:41and dress more feminine.

02:42She also plays a lot with accessories as well and that's the same thing with India from Love Island

02:47so that's why I love both about them.

02:49It's always so hard to really find a nice sizing of tops to really fit the outfit.

02:54It's a plain t-shirt so people would think that it wouldn't be as hard but it is.

02:59I do my best to keep a balance so if I'm looking for something baggy like a baggy top I'll probably

03:05go with shorts or pants that's a little bit tight.

03:10When I got the shirt and I was starting to style it I tried to figure out different ways I can style

03:15it. Showing the shirt as is, layering over it, layering under it, changing the proportions so

03:20whether that be tucking it in, cuffing it.

03:22I draw my style inspiration mostly from Carolyn Bessette Kennedy.

03:26Denim, button downs, black turtleneck.

03:30This is definitely my quintessential 90s look.

03:35I also draw a lot of inspiration from Princess Diana, all of her very off-duty looks.

03:40My biggest challenge is I am five feet tall so I'm always looking to elongate my limbs,

03:46my torso and just finding different ways to do that.

03:49Now that I see it with the vest I feel like it has to be tucked a little bit.

03:57This is my boho brunch outfit. Prairie core perhaps one might say.

04:03So I tried on a small, medium and large. I ended up on a medium. I kind of felt like Goldilocks.

04:08I like this bagginess of the sleeves. I kind of like the oversized feel because this is my brunch look

04:15it kind of feels like something I'd be comfortable sitting in for a few hours over a mimosa with some

04:19friends and not feel like too tight or constricted. One thing that I wanted to accentuate was my waist

04:24and so I thought what if I tied this up and maybe put like a little brooch on here. I like when colors

04:29go together but I kind of want to make sure that there's pops of things that almost don't go together

04:36which kind of makes it go together if you know what I mean.

04:38Model off duty. Dress down but done up. It's comfortable. It's chic. I'm a dancer so I can just

04:48wear this. Coming from dance practice over my sports bra. So we have the oversized tee. Because

04:54it's oversized it was a little bit tricky to figure out my exact size. I ultimately went with the large.

05:01My biggest challenge was how big it was. It's a lot of fabric and I had to find ways to find my shape.

05:08So I added a little bit of a tuck because I wanted to accentuate the waist and also give it a little

05:12bit of shape. So you see kind of how it drapes and then have a little fanny pack because I need my

05:18chapstick and all my things. This outfit makes me feel very cool. It shows the cooler edgier more kind of

05:27laid back parts of my personality while bringing attention to detail.

05:33This is actually a dress and I made it into a skirt and I just tucked this top in. I wanted to branch

05:42out more into different colors and really experiment with that and just in terms with shoes and this two

05:49top dress slash skirt. I honestly really feel free. I definitely wanted to wear something really really

05:56breathable. I get hot like very easily so this fabric it's linen and it feels amazing. I normally wear a

06:032xl and this is a 2xl shirt. This t-shirt feels amazing. It feels like I'm not really wearing anything.

06:10I'm way too comfortable to try work in this but maybe some light errands in this just to show off the outfit.

06:18I decided to do a extra extra small so I sized down so that I could tuck it giving a crop effect

06:28and showing a little bit of skin. I cuffed it twice and then I paired it with a oversized baggy overall.

06:35So it highlights bump but not crazy bump. I find sometimes that when I wear baggy bigger pants

06:43and I wear a smaller more feminine shoe. I kind of look like I have like little ant feet that are

06:48coming out of my overalls. So I went for a chunky shoe just kind of balance that look. It's very 90s.

06:55Overalls, chunky new balance, Prada baguette, the nylon Prada of the 90s and then the crop top showing

07:03the bump. The t-shirt made me feel of course comfort. It's boxy, it's a great shape but I also think it's a

07:10very cool shape. Usually when you get a woman's white tee it's fitted, it's tight around the arms,

07:16it's tight around the neck and this just kind of gives you more to play with. I think that this is

07:21a different way to style overalls. I think maybe pre-pregnancy I don't know if I would have

07:28covered up so much like this. Maybe I would have gone for like a tighter fit overall tucking in,

07:34showing some skin, embracing the baggy. It feels very Spice Girls meets pregnancy.

07:46I am in my dad but also kind of like five-year-old boy but also Adam Sandler look. I usually wear a

07:56small but I went with a medium today. There's nothing worse than like an oversized something that is like

08:01a little too small to be like truly oversized. I was like looking at this t-shirt and I was

08:06thinking what I would actually wear and I actually have worn this exact outfit but with a different

08:12oversized shirt. I have the dad's sandals to you know complete the look for a tour of my jewelry.

08:20These are my grandpa's. I never take them off. They're from the Soviet Union. If you

08:25look closely into it it has a little like Soviet Olympics sign. This is just the shirt as it is.

08:33I'm not nodding it. I'm not tucking it in. I'm just embracing its true form, supplementing its

08:39bagginess with even more bagginess and I think it's nice sometimes when fashion is just really simple.

08:47I know I look ridiculous and I'm wearing a ridiculous bag that fits like one lipstick and like loose pieces

08:54of gum because it doesn't fit a whole thing of gum. Sometimes you just gotta embrace being a little

08:59ridiculous. Who's gonna go first? The experience was super fun. I liked all the styling and then I

09:07also really liked seeing everybody else's looks. We all came together with such different final looks

09:13but I think we're all kind of in love with each other's looks too at the same time. Oh no yes definitely.

09:18This experience forced me to be a little bit more creative. Like you were saying with figuring out

09:23how I want to style it and also kind of introspective like oh what's my personal style. So what I

09:28really love is seeing everyone's personal style infused in each one of the outfits. I think it was

09:33also fun to see how everyone took a different shape to it and then really played with the different

09:40aspects of the shirt like the cuffing and the knots. It really pushed me to think more outside the box.

09:47I tend to keep it extremely safe. I get a little like nervous about just adding things so I think

09:53it was just very inspirational. But I feel like the most basic things are the hardest to find because

09:59those are the things that are going to be in your closet forever and you want to like find something

10:03that like truly works for you. And it's amazing how I came here and I saw that there is like also like

10:09so much more that you can do. And it's really beautiful with fashion where you look at one

10:14thing and there's like an infinite amount of things that you can do. And I'm all I'm now like

10:21why did I not do any of these? If I could use one word to describe all of your outfits I would say fire.

10:28Oh wow. Okay I'll take that.

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