The Perfect Burgundy Satin Dress For Weekend Brunch
Everyone I know treats a burgundy satin dress like it’s an event dress, something you unzip a garment bag for twice a year and then apologize to for taking up…
The Perfect Brown Satin Top For Layering This Season
My brother crashed at my place for a weekend in October, saw the brown satin top hanging over my desk chair, and said “that looks like something Dad would’ve worn…
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…
The Best Brown Slip Dresses
There was a proper argument in our group chat last spring when one of us wore a brown slip dress to a “casual Friday drinks” thing and someone else said,…
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…
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…
The Beige Satin Tops Worth Your Money
Everyone talks about a beige satin top like it’s a neutral, like it’s the quiet cousin of a white button down, and I need to say plainly that it is…
The Black Velvet Dresses Worth Your Money
Had a client last year, older woman, tell me black velvet was “the safe choice for a woman my size,” and I actually stopped what I was doing to argue…
The Best Beige Lace Tops For Layering This Season
I own two beige lace tops, purchased eighteen months apart, and they have taught me completely different lessons about the same category. The first one, bought for a client dinner…