Here's How the Amazon Personal Shopper Program Works

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Amazon has released a new Personal Shopping program by Prime Wardrobe, and honestly with the last two years, I’m stoked. (If you’re just interested in seeing the sign up process, scroll down.)

It’s been two years of wearing leggings, sweat pants, and obnoxious statement pieces that I’m too self-conscious to wear out of the house. Honestly, I’m not sure how to dress myself anymore.

With socialization coming to a halt again, it looks like I’ll need to be able to at least fake being a real adult on camera, and I don’t think my go-to astronaut footie pajamas are gonna cut it for the next Zoom holiday meet-up.

Add-in the fact that leggings and skinny jeans are going out of style, along with my coveted side part, and I’m at a loss for buying non-skinny jeans. What did we wear before them? Sure, I could go jean shopping at the mall, but that sounds awful and long. I’ll let the professionals help me.

The Personal Shopping program starts at $0 for the first time that you try it, and is only $4.99 for each styling afterwards.

The personal shopper sign up process, feels strangely like an old Buzzfeed quiz. Picture credit: Author.

What’s the Sign Up Process Like?

After navigating to the Amazon Personal Shopper Program page, click the “Let’s Get Started” button.

You’ll need to create a personal profile on your Amazon account, or select your profile if you already have one created.

The Prime Personal Shopper Program seems to cater to both those who follow gender norms, and non-binary folks. One of the first questions when signing up for the program, is “Which department do you typically shop in?”

Screenshot of the first question in the Amazon Personal Shopper program sign up quiz. Credit: Author

The next step laid out common styles and asks you how often you wear each style. It’s fun, and vaguely reminiscent of the Buzzfeed quizzes that use to fill my afternoons.

The options are ‘rarely’, ‘sometimes’, or ‘often’ for how often I wear the style. Since I’ve been dressing like a trash goblin, I set casual as ‘often’, and then set my preferred styles to ‘sometimes’.

Pick a style. I love Romantic + Edgy style combinations. Photo credit: author.

After Amazon gets an idea about your preferred style, they ask about colors and patterns to avoid. I really like this. Otherwise I would be worried that every item in my closet may end up as a mustard yellow. (That may sound like hyperbole, but in the mid 2010s, my closet was about 80% maroon.)

To be honest, as a chubby woman, I’ll skip animal prints. Torrid ruined those. Photo credit: author.

Next up is a quick quiz on how you prefer your clothing to fit. For women, they ask about how I like my tops, pants, skirts, dresses, jeans, and heel height. All you need to do is to select (by clicking) the types of fits that you prefer.

Let your stylist know exactly what you prefer. Photo credit: author.

Next up is a quick inventory on the areas of your body that you’re self conscious about or would like to show off. Am I thrilled about letting a tech giant know what areas of my body I’m most self-conscious of? Not at all. But if it means that I don’t have to get sneezed on by someone else's child at the mall, I’ll take the risk.

This section is like the previous sections, with ‘Hide’, a blank ‘eh’, and ‘Highlight’ as my options.

Do you have body parts that you want to deemphasize or highlight? They have a quiz step for that as well. photo credit: author.

Next they asked me to fill out some bio information — height, weight, age, as well as the break down of what sizes I normally wear in different items.

There are a few more screens where you can share links to your Pinterest, Facebook, or Instagram with your stylist, as well as to pass on any other comments to your style.

How often do you want personally styled options? Photo credit: author.

How often is the frequency of the Amazon Personal Shopper Program?

The frequency options are for monthly styling, every other month, or once every 3 months. For my first attempt with this program, I’m trying once every 3 months.

You can specify specific item types that you’re interested in. Photo credit: author.

The last screen in the sign up process gives you the option to choose which types of clothing you’d like. I chose to be surprised, because as I’ve already mentioned, I have no idea what’s happening with style these days.

Conclusion

I’m lazy. I want to be cute, but I don’t know how. Amazon’s Personal Shopper Program may just be the perfect thing for me. I already order quite a bit from them, and they probably already track all of my information.

Leave me a comment and let me know if you’ve gave this program a try already!

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