Shop the Bronze Mini Dresses We’d Actually Wear

Okay so this whole post almost didn’t happen because I got into it with myself about whether a bronze mini dress is a “real Tuesday” item or a “fake Tuesday…

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The Black Velvet Dresses Worth Your Money

Had a client last year, older woman, tell me black velvet was “the safe choice for a woman my size,” and I actually stopped what I was doing to argue…

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Our Favorite Black Bodycon Dresses Right Now

There was a stretch, maybe four years ago, when I would have told you the black bodycon dress was a young person’s problem, the kind of thing you wear at…

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Shop the Beige Slip Dresses We’d Actually Wear

I’d like to have a word with the woman who bought her first beige slip dress in 1994 thinking it made her look like she’d wandered off the set of…

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Claire’s Pick of the Best Black Backless Dresses

Okay so I have owned four black backless dresses in the last two years, which is a specific number I actually counted because I got weirdly defensive when my roommate…

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Our Favorite Beige Mini Dresses Right Now

Nine days until my cousin’s engagement party and the group chat has decided, almost unanimously, that beige is the answer. Almost. One person, and I’m not naming her because she’ll…

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The Best Aqua Maxi Dresses For A Garden Party

I’d like a word with the woman who wore a pale blue linen dress to an outdoor wedding in 2001 and spent six hours pulling it away from her legs…

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The Best Backless Dresses For Weekend Brunch

I need to admit something. I spent about two years thinking the backless dress was a trap dressed up as a good idea, the kind of thing that photographs beautifully…

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Shop the Aqua Mini Dresses We’d Actually Wear

Okay so my roommate’s boyfriend was over last week, saw me trying on aqua mini dress number three of the afternoon, and said “wait, you own more than one of…

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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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