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…
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…
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…
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…
Dress Shoes for a Navy Suit: The Formal Color Options
My brother in law Rob caught me halfway across his living room at Thanksgiving two years ago, glanced down at my feet, and said, “Are those brown with a navy…
Denim Shirt: Bottoms and Jackets That Work
I own six denim shirts. Not because I set out to collect them, but because every time I think I have the right one, some detail is slightly off, the…
Womens Blazer Outfits: What to Wear Under and Over
I was standing at the ironing board at seven in the morning, coffee going cold on the counter, running the tip of the iron along a sleeve that had picked…
Joggers Styled Up: Shoes, Boots, Coats and Jackets
I own fourteen pairs of joggers. Fourteen. I counted them properly last Sunday, laid out on the bed like some sort of intervention, and stood there doing the math on…