Wide Leg Jeans in Winter: Shoes and Outfits for Cold Days

The reputation on wide leg jeans in winter is that they’re impractical, full stop. They drag through slush, they need the kind of shoe you can’t wear once the sidewalks…

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Mens Cardigan: Layering Over, Under and With

I checked my “worn twice this week, don’t wash yet” chair last Tuesday and counted. Four cardigans in five days. Not four different sweaters, four different cardigans, because apparently that’s…

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Which Color Pants Go With a Navy Blazer?

The reputation is that a navy blazer only really works with gray pants, maybe khakis if you’re feeling loose, and that’s the whole conversation. Every men’s style guide I’ve ever…

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Black Dress: Which Shoe Colors Work?

I own fourteen black dresses. I counted them properly last week, laid them across the bed like some sort of very somber card trick, and the number should have alarmed…

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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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Sweater Dress Styling: Shoes, Boots, Coats and Jackets

My roommate walked into the kitchen on a Tuesday, looked at me for exactly two seconds, and said, “You’re wearing the vacuum sweater as a dress again, aren’t you.” Which,…

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Blazer Layering: What Goes Under It, Over It and With It

I own eleven blazers. I want to lead with that number because it explains both my authority and my humiliation, because for at least four of those eleven years I…

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Jumpsuit Styling: Shoes and Cardigans That Work

I own eleven jumpsuits. I counted them properly last month while packing for a trip, laying them across the bed like some kind of fabric inventory, and eleven felt like…

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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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Denim Jacket for Women: Pants That Work With It

I own eleven denim jackets. Eleven. I counted them properly last month while doing a closet cull that was supposed to result in bags for donation, and instead resulted in…

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