With no intention of going viral, Amelia Crook crowdsourced a Queer Eye-style makeover from thousands of strangers, provoking tensions closer to home
Amelia Crook did not set out to have an existential crisis.
The 43-year-old was simply looking for some tips on how to update her style. She used to spend her days reading Vogue, maintaining meticulous lookbooks on Pinterest, and even took a mid-career sabbatical to intern for a milliner in New York whose clients included Debbie Harry. But now, she felt stuck in the “mum uniform”: the same Breton stripe T-shirt everyone else in her small town in regional Victoria wore at the school pick-up queue.
