Our Favorite Checked Coats Right Now
A woman on my flight to Nashville, seat 14C, leaned over during boarding and said “that coat is doing a lot” in a tone I genuinely could not decode as…
The Best Checked Sweaters
I own four checked sweaters and I like exactly one and a half of them, and that half is doing a lot of work in this sentence because the half…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Checked Shirts
Four days until my sister’s wedding shower and I’m standing in my own closet, not a fitting room for once, staring at the checked shirt I bought in April and…
The Checked Skirts We Keep Coming Back To
Okay so my complaint, and nobody in my life has ever once pushed back on this, they just nod and let me keep talking, is that everyone treats the checked…
Our Favorite Chelsea Boots Right Now
A guy I was seeing, briefly, in that phase of dating where you’re still performing having your life together, looked at the three pairs by my door and said, “why…
The Best Chocolate Brown Bodycon Dresses For A Night Out
I would like a word with the woman who spent 2004 convinced that brown was a color for shoes and briefcases, nothing above the ankle, certainly nothing you’d wear to…
The Burgundy Long Sleeve Dresses Worth Your Money
I bought my first burgundy dress in 1994 convinced it would become what I now think people mean when they say a “signature piece,” which is a phrase nobody used…
The Burgundy Maxi Dresses We Keep Coming Back To
I bought my first burgundy maxi dress for a wedding I almost didn’t go to, and I remember standing in the fitting room doing the math on whether I’d wear…
The Perfect Burgundy Satin Dress For Weekend Brunch
Everyone I know treats a burgundy satin dress like it’s an event dress, something you unzip a garment bag for twice a year and then apologize to for taking up…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Burgundy Sequin Dresses
I spent about three years telling anyone who’d listen that burgundy sequins were a trap, gorgeous on the hanger, a genuine crime scene by the end of the night, sequins…