The Best Aqua Maxi Dresses For A Garden Party

I’d like a word with the woman who wore a pale blue linen dress to an outdoor wedding in 2001 and spent six hours pulling it away from her legs…

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Beyond Dress Shoes: Casual Footwear With a Navy Suit

I counted, once, out of pure boredom on a delayed flight: over the last two years I have worn my navy suit on twenty six separate occasions that I could…

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Dress Shoes for a Navy Suit: The Formal Color Options

My brother in law Rob caught me halfway across his living room at Thanksgiving two years ago, glanced down at my feet, and said, “Are those brown with a navy…

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Little Black Dress Footwear: Shoes, Heels and Tights

I counted them properly last week, standing in front of the closet with a glass of wine and entirely too much time on my hands, and the number was eleven.…

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Dress Shirt Colors for a Navy Suit

I bought my first real navy suit for a cousin’s engagement party eight years ago, and I paired it with a dress shirt that I was convinced was white. It…

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Maxi Dress Layers: Shoes, Jackets, Cardigans and Coats

I was standing in the front hallway last Tuesday, keys already in one hand, trying to zip a boot with the other, and I still had forty seconds to decide…

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Midi Dress Outfits: Shoes, Boots, Heels and Layers

I counted the other day, out of pure boredom during a long commute, and it turns out eleven of the last thirty days I wore a midi dress. Not because…

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Blue Dress Shoe Colors: Nude, Silver, Navy and More

I used to think shoe color for a blue dress was basically solved before you even opened the closet. Nude if you want to disappear into “appropriate,” silver if there’s…

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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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Little Black Dress Shoes: Color Ideas Beyond Black

I was on the floor of my closet at eleven at night, cross legged, surrounded by shoes I’d pulled out of a bin I hadn’t opened since March, because I…

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