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What Not to Wear: Season 3

40 episodes Premiered Oct 1, 2004 Updated Sep 28, 2026
Previously on What Not to Wear

Season 3 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of What Not to Wear Season 2.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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S3·E1 Mytharc

Kerryellen Kelly

Oct 1, 2004 · 45 min

Kerryellen, a computer programming expert, believes in wearing comfortable baggy clothing, arguing that since she spends most of her time crawling underneath desks fixing other emp

S3·E2 Core

Will Russell

Oct 8, 2004 · 45 min

Will is a 25-year-old from Alabama who needs to drop his hillbilly fashion tendencies for a sharper, more professional look, especially to be able to cut it in his new job. At 6' 3

S3·E4 Core

Melanie Lapatton

Oct 22, 2004 · 45 min

Melanie, 44, is a former world champion ballroom dancer who now runs the Dance Times Square Studio in New York City. Vogue magazine has described this studio as ""the most fashiona

S3·E5 Core

Matt Harris

Oct 29, 2004 · 45 min

Matt, a rowdy, flamboyant radio talk show host, HATES pants, and insists that it's okay that he wears shorts all the time because he has a job where nobody sees him. Clinton & Stac

S3·E6 Core

Kelly Denhart

Nov 5, 2004 · 45 min

Kelly, a stay at home mom, is stuck in the 1980's. In an interview, she claims to be inspired by Erica Kane from ""All My Children,"" but her appearance suggests Peg Bundy from ""M

S3·E7 Core

Jennifer Freeman

Nov 12, 2004 · 45 min

Jennifer, 25, is a new mother and a successful, full-time nurse. With a great husband and a loving family, why is Jennifer still dressing like she is 14? Perhaps it has something t

S3·E8 Core

Chris Love

Nov 19, 2004 · 45 min

Chris, a 25-year-old aspiring actor, has adopted a style that punk-rock icons might be proud of: his rebellious fashion sense is stitched together with safety pins, holey clothes a

S3·E9 Core

Tish Merrill

Dec 3, 2004 · 45 min

Drama is the word that best describes Tish, a 47-year-old blonde bombshell. Her clothes, however, are anything but dramatic. This North Carolina actress-turned-director is addicted

S3·E10 Core

Delia Espinoza

Jan 7, 2005 · 45 min

Twenty-six-year-old Delia, a recent M.B.A. graduate, favors quirky outfits more suited to a club kid than a professional executive. Stacy and Clinton have to convince this ex-Miami

S3·E11 Core

Charlie Hughes

Jan 14, 2005 · 45 min

Charlie is obsessed with purple clothes, and prefers to wear his casual, paint stained sweat clothes all the time. His argument for grunge wear is that his job as a boat restorer r

S3·E12 Core

Sohni Sing

Jan 21, 2005 · 45 min

Sohni has a funky '80's retro style that includes slicing up her shirts with scissors, which she calls ""her best friends."" (I still don't know how she smuggled them through airpo

S3·E13 Core

Eddie Wren

Jan 28, 2005 · 45 min

Chicago, Ill., is home to short-order cook Eddie and his charity-case style poached from thrift stores. Despite ripped-up pajama pants, a plethora of polyester and natty bedroom sl

S3·E14 Core

Laura Mousetess

Feb 4, 2005 · 45 min

Laura is a 33-year-old accountant from Chicago. She's a hardworking mother of four who's also studying for her master's degree in the evening. But while she may be in charge of her

S3·E15 Core

Mia Brant

Feb 11, 2005 · 45 min

As communications director for UNICEF, 40-something Mia has to be in the field making films about UNICEF's work, and on the red carpet welcoming celebrity UNICEF ambassadors to fun

S3·E16 Core

Nancy Herton

Feb 18, 2005 · 45 min

Nancy, 44, is an Irish step dance instructor whose fashion sense is badly out of sync. With a vast wardrobe of T-shirts, sweatshirts and leggings, Nancy dresses for comfort — not

S3·E17 Core

Ed Madisevic

Feb 25, 2005 · 45 min

Ed is a former teacher now working as an insurance agent, but his look is anything but office professional. Ed's wife remarks that his wild colorful outfits cause people to think E

S3·E18 Core

Melanie Artz

Mar 4, 2005 · 45 min

Melanie, a 27-year-old marketing executive, loves bold rainbow colors and considers her look eclectic. Her co-workers are afraid to take her to meetings because her style is too ca

S3·E19 Core

Maria Merchado

Mar 11, 2005 · 45 min

Maria was taught by her mother that wearing black clothing was only for mourning, so she always wears bold, bright solid colors from head to toe. To that end, she has over 40 pairs

S3·E20 Core

Laurie Pratt

Mar 25, 2005 · 45 min

Laurie's from Plymouth, MA who works at a landscaping company. She wears baggy clothes and wears a hairstyle that she hasn't cut in 15 years. Laurie's lack of style isn't just a la

S3·E21 Core

Amy Ernst

Apr 1, 2005 · 45 min

S3·E22 Core

Alana Clinka

Apr 8, 2005 · 45 min

Alana is a graphic design student whose outfits reflect that of a poor college student-- she likes baggy, comfortable worn clothes that she's even modified with scissors and safety

S3·E23 Core

Jeanine Garrity

Apr 15, 2005 · 45 min

Jeanine is a full time RN who also works part time as an Anna Nicole Smith impersonator. She says her wardrobe consists of work scrubs, Anna outfits, and her comfort wear, which is

S3·E25 Core

Ana Wyatt

Apr 29, 2005 · 45 min

S3·E29 Core

Mimi Miller

May 27, 2005 · 45 min

Independent film producer Mimi believes in staying unnotice behind the camera, so she tends to dress in black sweatsuits and comfortable outfits. Stacy and Clinton must convince he

S3·E30 Core

Kristen Regan

Jun 3, 2005 · 45 min

Aspiring photographer Kristen likes a Goth style to assert her individuality, but her friends claim the dark look may be costing her jobs. The WNTW team gets her to dithc the comb

S3·E31 Core

Raina Daley

Jun 10, 2005 · 45 min

Minnesota native Raina moved to California to join her boyfriend in LA, but she can't seem to give up wearing hooded sweatsuits all the time, even to work as a youth counselor. Ra

S3·E37 Core

Michaela Krecks

Jun 17, 2005 · 45 min

Michaela, an aspiring character actress, tends to get roies of bikers and tough women, and her wardrobe reflects that, with her obsession with leopard prints and flame patterns on

S3·E39 Core

Naima Jones

Jul 1, 2005 · 45 min

29 year old Naima is about to graduate with a degree in political science, but her hip-hop wardrobe certainly doesn't convey an image of a future leader of the country. Can the te

S3·E40 Core

Courtney Pitts

Jul 8, 2005 · 45 min

In another innovative idea for WNTW, women in the Boston area were invited to nominate themselves for the show, and were interviewed to plead why they deserved the makeover. Petite

S3·E43 Core

Tiffany

Sep 10, 2004 · 45 min

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