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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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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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…

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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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Sequin Skirt Outfits: Keeping the Sparkle Balanced With Tops, Shoes and Tights

I own seven sequin skirts. Seven. I counted them properly last month, laid out on the bed like some kind of intervention was about to happen, and the number genuinely…

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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…

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Sequin Pants: Simple Tops and Shoes to Calm Them Down

My sister took one look at me walking into her kitchen last New Year’s Eve, sequin pants catching the light from her stove hood, and said, “Okay, but why does…

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Green Dress Shoe Colors: Neutral, Metallic or Bold?

I was standing in my kitchen last Tuesday, one shoe on, one shoe off, trying to eat cereal without dripping milk on the emerald wrap dress I’d already committed to…

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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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