Our Favorite Backless Tops Right Now
Six days until a flight and I’m standing in my own bedroom mirror trying to figure out if my bra strap situation is a personal failing or just physics. This…
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…
Our Favorite Ankle Strap Sandals Right Now
I want to have a word with the woman who spent 1996 convinced an ankle strap sandal was aging on anyone over thirty, some kind of ingenue footwear that expired…
The Bardot Tops Worth Your Money
A friend of mine wore a bardot top to a birthday dinner that she’d found for six dollars at a church sale, elastic already a little tired, and posted about…
Linen Pants Styling for Warm Weather: Tops, Shoes and Jackets
My sister took one look at me walking into her kitchen last July, coffee in hand, wearing a pair of pleated linen pants I’d just picked up from a sample…
Shorts and Footwear: Shoes and Socks That Look Right
Shorts get treated like the easy part of getting dressed in summer, the thing you throw on when it is ninety degrees and thinking is optional. And for years I…
White Linen Pants: Tops, Shoes and What to Wear Underneath
The first time I wore white linen pants in public, I found out about it the way you find out about most fashion mistakes: through photographic evidence. It was a…
Chino Shorts: Shoes, Shirts and Socks That Work
My friend Theo walked into my kitchen in July, looked at my feet for a solid three seconds, and said “you’re wearing hiking socks with sandals on purpose, right, this…
Vest Styling: Under, Over and With Tops
I ruined a work vest before I ever wore it right, and the embarrassing part is I did it to myself on purpose. I bought a quilted vest two sizes…
Mens Linen Pants: Easy Outfits for Hot Days
My brother-in-law Desmond stood in my kitchen last July, took one look at me in wrinkled off-white linen pants and a faded polo, and said, “You look like you just…