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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Belted Dresses
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,…