Ankle Boots: Pants, Socks and Easy Outfits
Ankle boots have a reputation for being the safe choice, the boot you buy when you cannot decide on anything else, the middle child of footwear that gets worn constantly…
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…
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,…
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.…
Navy Chinos: Blazers, Jackets, Shirts and Shoes
I own six pairs of navy chinos right now. Six. I counted them properly, laid out on the bed like some sort of inventory audit, because I had a genuine…
Womens Loafers: Socks, Pants and Jeans That Suit Them
Someone in my office, a woman two desks over who wears exclusively black and grey and has never once complimented my clothes, called loafers “the sensible aunt of shoes.” I…
Wide Leg Jeans for Women: Outfits and Shoes
I own eleven pairs of wide leg jeans right now, which is a genuinely unhinged number for someone who works from a home studio three days a week and only…
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…
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…
Satin Midi Skirt: Tops, Shoes and Boots
I own eleven satin midi skirts. Eleven. I counted them last Sunday while doing a closet purge that was supposed to result in donations and instead resulted in me lying…