Best Shirt Colors for a Gray Suit
I own a charcoal gray suit that I bought for my cousin’s wedding eight years ago, and for the first two years I wore it exactly once, to that wedding,…
Gray Suit Shirt Patterns and Colors
I own six gray suits. Not by design, not some capsule wardrobe manifesto, just the slow accumulation of a decade where gray kept winning over navy at the tailor’s counter.…
Gray Suit and Shoes: Brown, Black or Something Bolder
I was standing in the hallway with one shoe on and one shoe in my hand, running eleven minutes later than I should have been for a meeting I didn’t…
Gray Jeans for Men: Ways to Wear It
I was on my knees in a client’s guest bedroom in Dilworth, tape measure in my teeth, going through a stack of jeans she’d pulled from three different stores because…
Gray Blazer: Colors, Pants and Shirts That Work With It
Renata leaned over my cubicle wall on a Tuesday, looked at me for a solid three seconds, and said, “You look like you’re about to fire someone.” I was wearing…
Best Shoe Colors for a Light Gray Suit
I own four light gray suits and exactly eleven pairs of dress shoes that could theoretically go with them, and I counted last week because a friend asked me what…
Best Shirt Colors for a Light Gray Suit
I own eleven dress shirts that exist for exactly one reason. A light gray suit I bought three years ago from a shop in Wicker Park that has since closed,…
Gray Pants and Jeans for Women: Styling Ideas
I bought a pair of gray dress pants in 2011 specifically because the saleswoman told me gray was “the new black,” and I nodded like this was groundbreaking information rather…
Silver Sequin Skirt: Tops That Work
I own four silver sequin skirts. Four. I counted them last week while doing a closet purge that was supposed to result in fewer things, not an inventory of a…
Shirt Colors for Gray Dress Pants
I counted my gray dress pants last week, out of genuine curiosity, because I was standing in front of my closet on a Tuesday morning trying to figure out what…