Name: Tamisha Williams, Richmond

Age: 23

Occupation: permanent substitute teacher at L.D. Wilder Middle School in Henrico County

Personal style: very casual. She tries to "do the color thing" as well. "I usually wear plain tops and plain bottoms and try to accessorize with color because sometimes it's easier," said the size 0 who finds clothes shopping a challenge. "That's the misconception - that it's easier for me to shop because I'm small, but it's not . . . you just never know if it's going to be a zero big or a zero small."

Store: Clementine, 3118 W. Cary St.

The possibilities: Dark-wash jeans, gray skinny jeans, orange hoodies several pairs of pants in different styles; a white, shimmery tank top. The jeans were a size 0, but too big in the waist. The other pants, also her size, were too big and the tank wasn't versatile.

Her choice: An orange Lacoste hoodie ($35); handmade anchor earrings ($28); long-sleeve green and white striped Gap T-shirt ($6); BDG gray skinny jeans, $22 Price tag: $91 Why she chose what she did: The green shirt and jacket fit with her love of color. The jeans were versatile as were the earrings.

How it would work into her wardrobe: "The gray pants can be casual by day . . . or I can dress them up with a bright top and I can wear heels." And the orange jacket? "It's something I've been looking for . . . and it suits me. It's nice to find that."

What she plans to spend on spring fashions this year: About $100. She already spent more than $60 because she wound up buying the jeans, hoodie and striped shirt. "But I don't go shopping each season. Because I'm so small, I usually wear stuff for a while, which is good and bad." - Penelope M. Carrington