A Black Floral Dress To A Wedding Made Someone Ask If Black Was Appropriate
My sister in law sent me a photo of a dress at eleven at night with the caption “is this a NO” and three question marks, and the dress in…
A Black Dress Shirt For A Funeral Might Not Be Enough On Its Own
I bought a black dress shirt for my uncle’s funeral three years ago and stood in my bedroom feeling like I’d solved the problem. Black shirt, black pants, done, right?…
Hand Picked, The Gold Black Tie Dresses Worth Shopping
I had nineteen dresses on the shortlist. Nineteen. I know because I made a spreadsheet, because that is who I am now, and my mom saw it over my shoulder…
Shop the Black Wrap Dresses We’d Actually Wear
Almost everyone on the shop floor agrees the black wrap dress is the closest thing to a cheat code a wardrobe owns. I say this as someone who spends her…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Black Wrap Skirts
I own four black wrap skirts right now, which honestly is not a number I set out to reach, it just sort of happened over eighteen months of me checking…
Shop the Black Wrap Tops We’d Actually Wear
I have owned a black wrap top since roughly 1994, and I want to be honest that it was never the same top, it was a rotating cast of nearly…
Hand Picked, The Black Vest Tops Worth Shopping
Okay so this whole post almost didn’t happen because I got into it with my roommate about black vest tops and it turned out we weren’t even arguing about the…
The Best Black Cami Tops
I have two black cami tops sitting three inches apart on the same hanger and they could not be more different people. One’s a silk one I found on a…
The Perfect Black Blouse For Everyday Wear
My mom has this joke about me and black blouses, that I own them the way other people own tote bags, no memory of acquiring any of them, definite memory…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Black Cami Dresses
Okay so this whole debate was supposed to get settled at brunch on a Saturday, and instead it got settled by a heat wave, which is honestly how most fashion…