Style Tips

Style tips and how-to’s to help you get the most from your wardrobe.

  • Accept No Substitutes?

    During a conversation with a friend yesterday about wardrobe edits and closet purges, I realized there’s another category of item that often winds up in…

  • A Weekend Wardrobe Edit

    It’s been too hot the last couple of days to go anywhere or even hang out in the yard, so I’ve been staying in and…

  • My Color Journey: Year One

    Toward A More Colorful Style… For decades, my wardrobe consisted primarily of neutrals, mostly black. Black was both a practical and aesthetic choice. Practical, because…

  • Recalibrating

    Staying home… Whew. It looks like we’ll be continuing to hunker down at home for the foreseeable future. So focusing on the positive, I’m glad…

  • Caftan-Curious

    Every year when summer rolls around, I toy with the idea of a caftan. The thought of wearing something light and floaty and colorful and…

  • Infrastructure

    While I’ve always loved the gorgeous silhouettes of Christian Dior’s “New Look,” I couldn’t for a moment imagine squeezing myself into the kind of corsetry…