Cargo Pants Styling: Tops, Shoes, Jackets and Colors
I bought my first pair of cargo pants in a fit of confidence I had not earned. This was a few years back, olive green, six pockets, a drawstring hem…
Green Dress Shoe Colors: Neutral, Metallic or Bold?
I was standing in my kitchen last Tuesday, one shoe on, one shoe off, trying to eat cereal without dripping milk on the emerald wrap dress I’d already committed to…
Leather Skirt Styling: Tops, Jackets, Shoes and Tights
I own seven leather skirts. Seven. I counted them last week while doing a closet audit that was supposed to be about donating things, and instead turned into a moment…
Mini Dress Styling: Underneath, Over It, and With Boots or Coats
The reputation mini dresses carry is that they belong to a decade of your life and then you graduate out of them, quietly, the way you graduate out of standing…
Sequin Dress Styling: Jackets, Shoes, Bags and Earrings
I was standing at the ironing board on an ordinary Tuesday night, steaming the creases out of a plain cotton shirt for work the next day, when my eye landed…
Leather Pants Styling: Tops, Boots, Coats and Jackets
I bought my first pair of leather pants for a New Year’s Eve party in a city I did not live in, at a shop I have never been able…
Clothes That Go With Knee High Boots
I own seven pairs of knee high boots. Seven. I counted them properly for the first time last month, lined up against my closet wall like some kind of leather…
Black Leather Pants: Jackets, Shoes, Tops and Boots
Okay so I own six pairs of black leather pants right now. SIX. I counted them last week while I was looking for a specific pair for a specific shoot…
Black Leather Skirt: Jackets, Tights, Shoes and Tops
I need to tell you about the time I wore a pleather skirt to my friend’s engagement dinner and left looking like I was moonlighting as a dominatrix flight attendant,…
Leather Biker Jacket: Easy Pairings
My brother walked into the kitchen, stopped, and said, “Is that my jacket.” Not a question. He’d had that biker jacket since 2011, black leather gone soft at the elbows,…