“Just get a beige sandal, it goes with everything, you’ll never have to think about it again.” That’s what a sales assistant in some outlet mall in Franklin told me…
I was standing at my closet door at 7:40 on a Tuesday morning, one shoe already on my foot, coffee going cold on the dresser, holding a second shoe up…
I spent most of the 2000s convinced chocolate brown was a color for other people, women with better hair and more patience for dry cleaning, and I want to formally…
I bought a chocolate brown mini skirt in March telling myself it would replace my black one in rotation, and it has been worn exactly twice since March. My brother…
I have one friend who thinks chocolate brown is the sophisticated alternative to black for a night out, and I have another mode entirely, the one where I get the…
I own two brown maxi dresses that live about four feet apart in my closet and could not be more different. One I bought off a photo of a woman…
I settled this one myself, actually, and I’m still a little smug about it. For months I had a running argument with a friend who works in resale with me,…
My sister in law visited last month, took one look at me in the chocolate brown midi I’d bought for a wedding shower, and said “that’s such a sad color…
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…
A woman on the light rail once looked at me for a solid three stops and said, “that’s not a color, that’s a decision,” and I’ve thought about that sentence…