So let’s talk shirtdresses, my friends. Many pieces can be called shirtdresses, perhaps not in the best of faith. Search online, and you’ll get some
I’ve had a few inquiries about retirement wardrobes. As it turns out, dressing for the office is one thing, dressing for retirement, quite another. I
Let’s say you have a a new job. Let’s say you need a work wardrobe? OK then. Careers are won or lost to the 80%
Last week I bought some fairly inexpensive shoes online. The purchase experience was one of the best ever. It still makes me smile to think
My brother, as regular readers will remember, is getting married this spring, in a celebration influenced by Burning Man. My outfit, as regular readers will
Tonight, at a Los Angeles Fashion Week event, Mary Jo Matsumoto launches her Fall 2011 couture line. Mary Jo and I have been Internet friends
When I was very young little girls still wore party pants. In those days the term meant ruffled underwear. We would don our dresses, often
Two years ago, in its Fall 2009 collection, Balmain made waves with jackets like this. via net-a-porter. No longer available, but was on sale for
It may sound like a platitude, to say my mother is my style icon. I can’t help it. There she is, hatbox in hand. It’s
Derek Lam, via Quintessence So. It’s New York Fashion Week. Meaning that all kinds of designers are holding all kinds of fashion shows for all
Here’s an idea. What piece of women’s clothing, native to the Western world, has undergone revolutionary change in our lifetime? Shorts. Yes, shorts. Of course,
Some of us just don’t do well with color. Too daunting. But, you know, life is short. We think to ourselves, perhaps we do not