White Linen Pants: Tops, Shoes and What to Wear Underneath
The first time I wore white linen pants in public, I found out about it the way you find out about most fashion mistakes: through photographic evidence. It was a…
Gray Chinos: Shirt Colors and Shoes That Work
My sister took one look at me walking into her kitchen last Thanksgiving, wearing charcoal gray chinos with a rust colored flannel and white sneakers, and said, “Okay, when did…
Cream Pants and Jeans: Color Pairings and Outfit Ideas
I own three pairs of cream pants now, which feels like a strange thing to admit given that my first experience with the color ended with me standing in a…
Gray Joggers Outfits: Shirts, Shoes and Colors
I was folding laundry on a Sunday afternoon, the kind where you turn on a podcast you’re not really listening to and just sort by pile, when I hit the…
Mens Black Jeans: Building Outfits From Tees to Jackets
I ironed my black jeans once. Properly ironed them, crease down the front like school trousers, because I had a second interview for a job I badly wanted and I’d…
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…
Light Gray Pants and Jeans for Women: Easy Outfit Ideas
I counted last month, because counting things is basically my whole personality at this point, professionally and otherwise, and light gray pants or jeans made it into eleven separate outfits…
Which Color Pants Go With a Navy Blazer?
The reputation is that a navy blazer only really works with gray pants, maybe khakis if you’re feeling loose, and that’s the whole conversation. Every men’s style guide I’ve ever…
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…
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…