I turned a certain age a while back and suddenly all the advice I found online seemed to be about hiding, covering up, or “flattering” myself into a corner – honestly, I got a little tired of it. My mother, who is well into her seventies and sharper than me on most days, has never […]
My twenties were a delightful mess of figuring out what I liked to wear and what I only THOUGHT I liked to wear. There was a whole year where I only wore black, and then a summer where I wore nothing but polka dots, much to my sister’s confusion. Now that I’m a little past […]
I spent most of my twenties buying clothes that looked great on the hanger and terrible the moment they met my chest. It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out that the clothes weren’t the problem. The FIT was the problem. My sister and I are built pretty differently, and she once handed […]
I used to stand in front of my closet way too long every morning, half-dressed, moving hangers around and getting nowhere. My sister Jenna, who has a curvier frame than me and always looks put together, finally sat me down one Sunday and walked me through her whole approach. And to be completely honest with […]
I have a slim frame and for the longest time I thought that meant I could throw on anything and it would just work. It does not! I learned that the hard way in my early twenties when I wore an oversized everything and my sister took one look at me and said I looked […]
I turned 40 and something funny happened to my closet. Half of it suddenly felt too fussy and the other half felt like I was trying too hard to prove I still “had it.” Whatever “it” is. So I did the thing I always do when I feel stuck – I made a list. I […]
