Light Gray Pants and Jeans for Women: Easy Outfit Ideas

I counted last month, because counting things is basically my whole personality at this point, professionally and otherwise, and light gray pants or jeans made it into eleven separate outfits…

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Tops for Green Pants and Gray Pants: Color Combinations That Work

I want to tell you about the time I wore olive green pants and a red top to a Tuesday morning staff meeting because I genuinely thought I was being…

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Dresses Beyond Heels: Sneakers, Boots, Blazers, Cardigans and Sandals

There was a wedding in September, three years ago now, and I wore a pale green midi dress with a pair of strappy gold heels I had bought two days…

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Best Shirt Colors for a Gray Suit

I own a charcoal gray suit that I bought for my cousin’s wedding eight years ago, and for the first two years I wore it exactly once, to that wedding,…

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Gray Suit Shirt Patterns and Colors

I own six gray suits. Not by design, not some capsule wardrobe manifesto, just the slow accumulation of a decade where gray kept winning over navy at the tailor’s counter.…

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Black Shirt: Which Pants Go With It

I counted six times this week, black shirt on the ironing board or coming out of the dryer, and that’s not even a busy week for me. Tuesday it was…

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Gray Jeans for Men: Ways to Wear It

I was on my knees in a client’s guest bedroom in Dilworth, tape measure in my teeth, going through a stack of jeans she’d pulled from three different stores because…

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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…

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Gray Blazer: Colors, Pants and Shirts That Work With It

Renata leaned over my cubicle wall on a Tuesday, looked at me for a solid three seconds, and said, “You look like you’re about to fire someone.” I was wearing…

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What Color Shoes Go With Black Jeans?

I was standing in my front hallway at 7:42 on a Tuesday, one shoe on, one shoe in my hand, an Uber already four minutes away and closing, and I…

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