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The Fitting

The Fitting is our style-advice show. Send in a wardrobe question, get a stylist’s honest answer.

by Front Row Staff

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The Fitting is where your wardrobe problems get an actual answer, not a Pinterest board. Every episode, listeners write in with something specific they're stuck on — a piece they don't know how to wear, an event they're dressing for, a closet full of things that never quite come together — and our stylist host talks it through, live, with none of the hedging you get from a styled-for-the-internet guide. It's advice you could act on by the weekend.

A recent episode tackled a question from a listener in Kigali who'd inherited three of her grandmother's kaba dresses and had no idea how to bring them into regular rotation without it reading as costume. Another dealt with the eternal problem of dressing for a Lagos wedding season that runs from December through February — how to build one base wardrobe that can survive six aso-ebi outfits without repeating a single look.

New episodes drop every other week, and yes, we do read out the questions exactly as they're sent in, cringeworthy details included. If your closet has a problem it's been quietly ignoring for months, this is the show that makes you finally deal with it.