Styling With Purpose: Empowering Women Through St. Vincent de Paul’s Job Pathways Program

This season, our hearts are especially full as we have begun partnering with the extraordinary ladies of St. Vincent de Paul, a group of compassionate volunteers who lovingly refer to those they serve as their “neighbors.”

These neighbors are women experiencing homelessness… women who have survived storms most of us will never see… women rebuilding their lives one brave step at a time. And now, through the newly created Job Pathways Program, these women are preparing to step back into the workforce with strength, dignity, and hope.

And that’s where Elsie in Naples had the honor to step in.

The Power of Being Seen, Styled & Supported

There is something deeply transformative about clothing, about seeing yourself in a mirror and thinking:

“I look capable. I look confident. I can do this.”

At our styling workshop, the St. Vincent de Paul volunteers invited us to teach them how to style their neighbors for job interviews, workplace re-entry, and everyday professionalism.

Together, we created:

• Polished, affordable, mix-and-match looks
• Outfits that make a strong first impression
• Tips on fit, color, and body confidence
• Ways to help women feel elegant, empowered, and work-ready
• Style solutions for women of all shapes, ages, and walks of life.

The room was filled with joy, tears, laughter, and sisterhood, women lifting women, showing them what’s possible, and reminding them they matter

Fashion With Heart

This collaboration is more than styling sessions.

It’s about restoring dignity.

It’s about helping women feel worthy of opportunity.

It’s about reminding them they belong in every room they walk into.

The volunteers of St. Vincent de Paul have created a program that changes lives, from housing support and food security to job readiness and emotional healing. Their Job Pathways initiative is giving women the tools to rebuild their futures, and we are honored to walk alongside them in this mission. 

When Women Support Women, Lives Change  

We also would like to celebrate the fabulous Diane Van Parys, the heart and leader behind our Styled for Success collaboration with St. Vincent de Paul. Her compassion, grace, and dedication to uplifting women experiencing homelessness is truly inspiring. Honored to stand beside her in this mission of hope and empowerment

A heartfelt thank you to the incredible St. Vincent de Paul volunteers: thank you for your compassion, dedication, and unstoppable love.

You are making Naples a brighter place, one neighbor, one outfit, one act of kindness at a time.

To the women stepping into the next chapter of their lives:

We see you.

We believe in you.

And we are cheering for you every step of the way