Style Tips

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

  • 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…

  • From Funk to Funky

    A little over a year ago, I had to acknowledge that I’d fallen into a deep style rut. The wardrobe of simple neutral pieces I’d…

  • Weekend Update: April Showers

    A Week Of Ups & Downs… We’ve had an unusually wet April so far in Southern California. It’s kept us indoors a bit more, and…