The Brown Ankle Boots Worth Your Money

One of us has a pair she’s worn into the ground and calls “the only shoe,” and another one thinks brown ankle boots are the thing you buy when you’ve…

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Hand Picked, The Black Trench Coats Worth Shopping

One of us thinks a black trench is the most useful coat you can own. Another thinks black is the one color you should never buy this piece in, and…

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The Black Tweed Skirts Worth Your Money

My upstairs neighbor came down for wine in January, looked at the black tweed skirt drying flat on my radiator, and said, “isn’t that just a school uniform for adults.”…

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The Black Velvet Dresses Worth Your Money

Had a client last year, older woman, tell me black velvet was “the safe choice for a woman my size,” and I actually stopped what I was doing to argue…

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The Best Beige Knitted Tops

Okay so beige knits are one of those categories where I feel like the internet lied to us for a solid two years, everyone was calling it “quiet luxury neutral”…

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The Best Beige Lace Tops For Layering This Season

I own two beige lace tops, purchased eighteen months apart, and they have taught me completely different lessons about the same category. The first one, bought for a client dinner…

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Hand Picked, The Beige Trench Coats Worth Shopping

Okay so beige trench coats are the one category where I genuinely thought this would be a quick post. Neutral coat, everyone owns one, done, next. Wrong. So wrong. I…

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The Best Beige Blazers For Layering This Season

I argued for two years that beige on top of anything was a mistake unless you were extremely tan or extremely pale, no in between. My brother settled it by…

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Shop the Black Cardigans We’d Actually Wear

I have a client who once told me she owned “eleven, maybe twelve” black cardigans, and when I asked her to actually count, it was nineteen. Nineteen. And she wore,…

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The Perfect Beige Coat For The Office

I called beige a coward’s color for about six years. Told my brother Sam that exact thing when he bought one, some camel colored thing from a menswear sale, and…

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