There is one color in my closet that I gravitate toward the second the air turns crisp, and it is maroon. Not the loud kind of red that shouts for attention, but that deep, moody, slightly-serious shade that makes everything look a little more put together than it actually is. My sister teases me about […]
I fell for navy hard about three years ago, on a trip with my sister when I packed almost nothing but navy pieces and somehow looked put together every single day. That was the accidental experiment that turned me into a believer. Navy is like black’s kinder cousin. It does everything black does, but softer, […]
I resisted pink shoes for the longest time. I thought they were too much, too loud, too “look at my feet.” And then my sister showed up to a family lunch in a pair of pale pink flats and honestly, I couldn’t stop staring at how pretty her whole outfit looked. So I caved, bought […]
I have this thing where I buy a dress for one specific event and then it hangs in my closet for three years because I never figure out what to do with it after. Sound familiar? My sister Jenna teases me about it constantly. She has maybe eight dresses total and wears each one to […]
I bought my first deep red dress on a whim, in a little shop my sister dragged me into on a rainy Saturday afternoon. I did not need it. I told myself I did not need it. And then I wore it three times that same week. There is something about a good dress that […]
I have a cream dress hanging in my closet that I have worn to more places than I can count. Baby showers, a garden lunch, one very fancy brunch where I felt slightly overdressed and did not care one bit. My sister always teases me that I own the same dress in six different versions, […]
I have a confession, and it is that dark colors are my safe place. Whenever I open my closet in a panic, I reach for something dark, and I never regret it. My sister teases me about this – she says my closet looks like a moody sky at dusk, all blues and blacks and […]
I’ve this one memory of getting dressed in my sister’s tiny apartment years ago, both of us fighting over the only full-length mirror she owned. She was wearing head-to-toe silver and I was in black and I remember thinking we looked like two halves of the same idea. Ever since then I have loved playing […]
There is a color my sister keeps calling “that fancy red” and I have to keep gently correcting her. It is oxblood. Or burgundy. Or dark cherry, depending on the day and the lighting and my mood. Whatever you want to name it, this deep red-toned red has quietly become the backbone of my cold-weather […]
I have a small confession to make. I have a folder on my phone just labeled “outfit combos” and it is completely out of control. Half of them I never wear, but the other half I return to again and again, and somehow they always start with something white. White is my favorite base… It’s […]
