Tops for Green Pants and Gray Pants: Color Combinations That Work
I want to tell you about the time I wore olive green pants and a red top to a Tuesday morning staff meeting because I genuinely thought I was being…
Beige Chinos: Shoes, Shirts and Color Partners
I counted them properly last week, which was a mistake, because now I cannot unknow it. Six pairs. Six pairs of beige chinos live in my closet right now, ranging…
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…
White Dress: Shoes and Tights That Work
I wore a white dress to my cousin’s engagement party three years ago and paired it with sheer black tights I’d had folded in a drawer since a funeral the…
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,…