The Perfect Brown Bardot Top For The Office

My brother Sam thinks a bardot top is basically office-appropriate as long as you own a blazer, and I think that logic is how you end up explaining your shoulders…

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Brown Pants Are Easier to Style Than You Think

I own eleven pairs of brown pants right now. I counted them last week while doing a closet purge that was supposed to result in fewer pants and instead resulted…

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Gray Suit Shoe Colors: Brown, Black, Burgundy and Beyond

I was sitting on the kitchen floor last Sunday night with a can of shoe polish, a horsehair brush, and three pairs of shoes lined up like suspects, trying to…

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Brown Shoes: Which Pants and Socks Go With Them

I counted them twice because the first number seemed impossible. Eight. Eight pairs of brown shoes lined up against the wall of my closet, and that’s not counting the one…

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Brown Dress Pants and Shoe Colors

I used to tell clients that brown dress pants were the pickiest thing in a closet. Harder than gray, harder than navy, because the second you introduce a warm neutral…

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Gray Suit and Shoes: Brown, Black or Something Bolder

I was standing in the hallway with one shoe on and one shoe in my hand, running eleven minutes later than I should have been for a meeting I didn’t…

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