The Perfect Brown Bardot Top For The Office

My brother Sam thinks a bardot top is basically office-appropriate as long as you own a blazer, and I think that logic is how you end up explaining your shoulders…

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The Beige Satin Tops Worth Your Money

Everyone talks about a beige satin top like it’s a neutral, like it’s the quiet cousin of a white button down, and I need to say plainly that it is…

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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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The Perfect Beige Cropped Top For A Night Out

I own four beige cropped tops and I have worn exactly one of them out of the house more than twice. This is not a secret in my apartment. My…

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The Beige Mini Skirts We Keep Coming Back To

I own four beige mini skirts right now. Four. I counted them Sunday while doing laundry, sitting on top of the dryer like it was an intervention, and my first…

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The Black Bardot Tops Worth Your Money

I have a running disagreement with myself about the black bardot top that I have never fully resolved, and it is not about whether it fits, it is about whether…

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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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The Perfect Beige Satin Skirt For The Office

There was a proper argument in this house the week I wore a beige satin skirt to a meeting and my sister, on the phone, heard the rustle of it…

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