The Brown Shift Dresses Worth Your Money

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…

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Shop the Black Wrap Dresses We’d Actually Wear

Almost everyone on the shop floor agrees the black wrap dress is the closest thing to a cheat code a wardrobe owns. I say this as someone who spends her…

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Claire’s Pick of the Best Black Wrap Skirts

I own four black wrap skirts right now, which honestly is not a number I set out to reach, it just sort of happened over eighteen months of me checking…

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Shop the Black Wrap Tops We’d Actually Wear

I have owned a black wrap top since roughly 1994, and I want to be honest that it was never the same top, it was a rotating cast of nearly…

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The Perfect Black Wide Leg Jean For The Office

I had this argument with myself for about three weeks, whether black is the safe choice in this category or just the boring one, and I never actually settled it.…

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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…

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The Best Beige Blazers For Layering This Season

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…

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The Perfect Black Blouse For Everyday Wear

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…

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The Beige Wrap Skirts Worth Your Money

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…

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The Best Belted Coats

Okay so “best” is doing a LOT of heavy lifting in this post because me and my roommate cannot agree on what that word even means for a belted coat…

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