Blue Dress Shoe Colors: Nude, Silver, Navy and More

I used to think shoe color for a blue dress was basically solved before you even opened the closet. Nude if you want to disappear into “appropriate,” silver if there’s…

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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…

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Pink Shirt: Tie and Pants Combinations

I bought my first pink shirt for a video I never posted. That’s the whole embarrassing part, right there, before I even get to the tie. It was February, I’d…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Black Satin Skirt: Simple Tops and Shoes That Let It Shine

I own exactly one black satin skirt, a midi with a bias cut that hits just below the knee, and I have worn it, by my own rough count going…

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Sequin Dress Styling: Jackets, Shoes, Bags and Earrings

I was standing at the ironing board on an ordinary Tuesday night, steaming the creases out of a plain cotton shirt for work the next day, when my eye landed…

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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…

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