A Lace Dress For A Wedding Guest Comes Down To The Lace Itself, Not The Dress
My friend Renata texted me a photo of a dress three weeks before her cousin’s wedding with the message “is this too much lace” and I stared at it for…
A Backless Dress As A Wedding Guest Might Come Down To The Venue More Than The Dress
Had a client last fall text me a photo from a dressing room, spine to waistband, asking “is this too much for a Tuesday wedding.” Not too much for a…
Whether You Need A Slip Under A Dress Never Crossed My Mind Until A Sheer One
There was a woman standing in front of me at a coffee shop last week wearing a white cotton dress, arms up, reaching for the oat milk on the top…
Nobody Agrees On Who Invented The Mini Skirt
We were four texts deep in a group chat about a wedding guest dress code when it happened. Someone sent a photo of a 1965 look, some slip of a…
Nobody Mentioned I Might Need A Slip Under My Wedding Dress
My mom’s friend, a woman who got married in 1986 and has never once let anyone forget it, told me at a bridal shower that “back in our day nobody…
Mini Skirts Defined The 70s According To Everyone Except Me, Apparently
“That’s just not true, the whole decade was mini skirts,” said a guy at a dinner party last month, with the specific confidence of someone who has watched exactly one…
I Tried That Viral TikTok Dressing Method Where You Throw Everything on the Floor (Spoiler: My Silk Blouses Were Not Happy)
Let me take you back to last Tuesday. Imagine me – aged approximately 16 (in years I haven’t lived yet), watching teens on TikTok shove every piece of clothing they…
Blue Satin Slip Dresses For Simple Days
You know how people get cold feet about buying satin slip dresses? Never been sure why. Satin shines just right, they skim in all the flattering places, and they solve…
The Best Halter Neck Dresses For Weekend Brunch
My cousin came to brunch with us a few weekends ago, sat down, looked around the table at literally four of us in halter necks we didn’t coordinate at all,…
Shop the Halter Neck Tops We’d Actually Wear
There was a proper argument in our group chat last month when the woman two desks over wore a halter neck top to a client dinner, on a Tuesday, with…