Leopard Print Jeans: Treating Them Like a Neutral
Leopard print jeans have a reputation for being a lot. Ask most people what they picture when you say the words and they will describe something loud, something you wear…
Beige Pants Color Pairings: Beyond Cream and White
Beige pants have a reputation for being the sensible choice, the pants you buy when you have given up on having an opinion about your closet. My mother owned a…
Baggy Jeans, Balanced: Tops and Shoes That Keep the Look Sharp
I own eleven pairs of baggy jeans. Eleven. I counted them properly last weekend while doing laundry, laying them out across the bed like some kind of denim crime scene,…
Knee High Boots: Jeans, Skirts, Socks and Everything Else That Works
I counted the other day: fourteen wears in six weeks. That is how often my black knee high boots came off the shelf between the start of October and the…
Barrel Jeans: Getting the Proportions Right With Shoes and Tops
My sister Nadia texted me a photo of herself in a pair of barrel jeans with the caption “tell me the truth, do these make me look like I’m wearing…
The Everyday Jeans Playbook: Footwear, Blazers and Everything Else
I counted the other day: out of the last thirty outfits I have photographed for the site, twenty six of them started with jeans. Not skirts, not trousers, not the…
Chinos Beyond the Office: Shoes, Boots, Blazers and Coats
Chinos have a reputation problem. Ask most people what they picture when you say the word and you get some version of the same image: khaki pants, slightly too roomy…
Brown Pants Are Easier to Style Than You Think
I own eleven pairs of brown pants right now. I counted them last week while doing a closet purge that was supposed to result in fewer pants and instead resulted…
White Jeans Without the Stress: Tops, Shoes and What Goes Underneath
My mother took one look at me walking into her kitchen in white jeans and a black top and said, “You’re going to spill coffee on those before you get…
Blue Jeans and Blue Pants: Shoes, Shirts and Color Partners
For years I owned exactly one pair of black leather oxfords and I wore them with everything, including, on one memorably bad night, a pair of mid wash blue jeans…