Best Shirt Colors for Brown Pants

My sister in law walked into Thanksgiving last year, looked at my brown corduroys and my white button up, and said, “Oh, you look like a substitute teacher who’s about…

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Blue Evening Dress: Shoes That Suit It

My roommate Marisol walked into my room on a Thursday night, looked at the eleven pairs of shoes fanned out across my bed like a crime scene, and said “you’re…

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Light Blue Suit: Which Shoe Colors Work?

I reach for this suit about eleven times a year, which I know because I actually tracked it last year in the same spreadsheet I use for expense reports, because…

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Dress Shoe Colors for Gray Pants

I own eleven pairs of dress shoes, which is a number I did not believe until I lined them up on the bedroom floor to write this, and the first…

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Black Sequin Skirt: Tops and Outfit Ideas

I’ve owned a black sequin skirt since roughly 2011, and for most of that time I treated it the way most people treat theirs, as a single-occasion garment that comes…

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