The Best Beige Shift Dresses
My mom came to visit in March, saw me in a beige shift dress for the third day in a row, and said, “Is that a uniform now, or are…
My mom came to visit in March, saw me in a beige shift dress for the third day in a row, and said, “Is that a uniform now, or are…
I argued for two years that beige on top of anything was a mistake unless you were extremely tan or extremely pale, no in between. My brother settled it by…
I have a client who once told me she owned “eleven, maybe twelve” black cardigans, and when I asked her to actually count, it was nineteen. Nineteen. And she wore,…
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…
My brother Sam argued for two years that beige on top reads as “I gave up” and nothing else. I argued back for two years that he’d never actually worn…
Had a whole argument last October about whether beige cardigans are the safest thing a grown woman can own or the exact color of giving up. Never got resolved. A…
My friend Marisol won this argument about a month ago and I’m still salty about it, which tells you everything about how these conversations usually go on our end. She’d…
I bought my first beige wrap skirt for a client dinner I was nervous about, which tells you nothing about the skirt and everything about how I make decisions, but…
I called beige a coward’s color for about six years. Told my brother Sam that exact thing when he bought one, some camel colored thing from a menswear sale, and…
Six days out from a trip to Key West and I still had two belted dresses sitting on the bed with the tags on, both bought for the same wedding,…