I built a whole spreadsheet the year I almost bought a trench coat. Not a metaphorical spreadsheet, an actual one, cost per wear projected against a Boston winter that’s really…
I bought a blazer specifically for one wedding rehearsal dinner in Franklin, secondhand, structured shoulder, the kind of navy that photographs as black in bad lighting. Paid forty two dollars…
I told a colleague once that I was wearing “smart casual” to a client dinner, and she looked at my cardigan the way you’d look at a stain you couldn’t…
I kept a navy blazer on the back of my office chair for three straight years in the early 2000s. Never wore it once that I can actually remember, just…
I built a whole cost benefit case for a navy blazer two Aprils ago, the way I build cases for everything, cost per wear, versatility across three separate weddings that…
My roommate walked in on me standing on one leg in the hallway, heel hovering half out of a penny loafer like I was mid escape from a burning building,…
Okay so someone commented on a loafer video I posted, “these look painful, glad they’ll break in,” and I just sat with that for a second because. Did they, though.…
A colleague asked me last month, over Slack, in the middle of an actual budget review, whether loafers “counted” as real shoes to wear with jeans or if she’d be…
My downstairs neighbor Deb saw me twice in one week wearing the exact same navy penny loafers, and both times she said the same thing: “Those look great.” Monday, bare…
I buttoned a cardigan on a client three weeks ago exactly the way I’d button a blazer. Top hole first, working down, skip the bottom one on instinct, like my…