“Just get a beige sandal, it goes with everything, you’ll never have to think about it again.” That’s what a sales assistant in some outlet mall in Franklin told me…
I’ve never been overly concerned with traditionally feminine styles—the florals, ruffles, draping textiles. My style tends toward utilitarian menswear-inspired shapes, minimal silhouettes, crisp tailoring. Boho maxi dresses are the one…
My sister settled this one two Christmases ago and I still haven’t fully recovered. We’d been going back and forth for years about whether a holiday dress is worth owning…
There’s a running joke around here about me and the holiday skirt, which is that I buy one every year like it’s a tax I owe the month of December,…
Everybody on this shop floor treats the heeled sandal like it’s a swimsuit accessory instead of the thing that’s going to carry an entire evening, and nobody’s around to argue…
Packed a green shirt dress for Cabo three years ago because my brother Sam said green photographs better on sand than white does, no washed out squint, no glare. He…
Everybody packs a green skater dress for a beach trip like it’s a decision already made, and nobody ever mentions the wind. That’s my complaint, and I’ll make it flatly…
Nobody warns you that a green square neck dress is basically two different outfits depending on whether you’re standing still or actually walking somewhere, and I’m tired of pretending that’s…
“Smart but sunny.” That was the actual line on the invitation my cousin sent for her backyard engagement thing in June, and I texted it to my sister like it…
I would like a word with the woman who stood in a dressing room in 1994 and declared, out loud, to nobody, that green was “a color for tablecloths, not…