White Dress Shoe Colors
I wore white shoes with a white dress to my cousin’s wedding in 1997, and I want to be very clear that I do not mean I wore a coordinating…
Pink Pants: Colors and Outfits That Balance the Brightness
I was folding laundry on a Tuesday night, the boring kind of Tuesday where you’re watching something you’ve already seen just for the noise of it, and I had a…
What Color Shirt Goes With a Blue Suit?
I own eleven blue suits. Eleven. I counted them properly last month while doing a closet purge that was supposed to result in fewer suits and instead resulted in me…
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…
Sock Colors for Brown Shoes
I counted my brown shoes last month during one of those closet purges where you tell yourself you’re being ruthless and then keep everything anyway. Eleven pairs. Eleven. Loafers, boots,…
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…
Green Dress Shoe Colors: Neutral, Metallic or Bold?
I was standing in my kitchen last Tuesday, one shoe on, one shoe off, trying to eat cereal without dripping milk on the emerald wrap dress I’d already committed to…
Shoes for a Green Dress
I was standing in my kitchen in a slip dress the color of a bottle of good olive oil, holding a mug of iced tea in one hand and a…
What Shoes Go With Any Dress?
I counted my shoe rack last week because I was procrastinating on actual work, and out of thirty one pairs, six get worn with dresses on a regular rotation. Six.…
Chino Shorts: Shoes, Shirts and Socks That Work
My friend Theo walked into my kitchen in July, looked at my feet for a solid three seconds, and said “you’re wearing hiking socks with sandals on purpose, right, this…