Brown Dress Pants and Shoe Colors
I used to tell clients that brown dress pants were the pickiest thing in a closet. Harder than gray, harder than navy, because the second you introduce a warm neutral…
Pink Pants: Colors and Outfits That Balance the Brightness
I was folding laundry on a Tuesday night, the boring kind of Tuesday where you’re watching something you’ve already seen just for the noise of it, and I had a…
What Color Shirt Goes With a Blue Suit?
I own eleven blue suits. Eleven. I counted them properly last month while doing a closet purge that was supposed to result in fewer suits and instead resulted in me…
Which Color Pants Go With a Navy Blazer?
The reputation is that a navy blazer only really works with gray pants, maybe khakis if you’re feeling loose, and that’s the whole conversation. Every men’s style guide I’ve ever…
Pink Shirt: Tie and Pants Combinations
I bought my first pink shirt for a video I never posted. That’s the whole embarrassing part, right there, before I even get to the tie. It was February, I’d…
Palazzo Pants: Tops and Shoes That Keep Them Flowing
Odette walked into my kitchen, took one look at me in wide leg linen pants and a cropped tank, and said, “okay but why do you look like you’re about…
Light Gray Pants and Jeans for Women: Easy Outfit Ideas
I counted last month, because counting things is basically my whole personality at this point, professionally and otherwise, and light gray pants or jeans made it into eleven separate outfits…
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…
Leather Pants Styling: Tops, Boots, Coats and Jackets
I bought my first pair of leather pants for a New Year’s Eve party in a city I did not live in, at a shop I have never been able…
Blazer Layering: What Goes Under It, Over It and With It
I own eleven blazers. I want to lead with that number because it explains both my authority and my humiliation, because for at least four of those eleven years I…