Lets talk about summer jeans outfits… I have a confession to make, I am a summer jeans girlie. Well I’m a jeans year round girlie. I know people don’t often think of jeans when think of summer outfits, but I gotta tell you, you’re missing out. I’ll give you not every summer day is a jeans summer day, but I probably still wear them at least once a week! And just to prove to you that summer jeans are, in…
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Honest Review: Free People Hot Shot Onesie
Read moreI’ve had Free People’s Hot Shot Onesie in various online shopping carts for AGES. I was hesitant to pull the trigger, $70-$80 is a lot for me to spend on comfies so I had to examine my options. First I tried two different Amazon “dupes”and they were hot garbage. The fit and sizing were wonky, the material was so bad, and considering what a cheap, inferior product they were, the $30-ish price tag was highway robbery. If you never listen…
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5 Ways To Hone Your Personal Style Over 40
Read moreLet’s talk about personal style over 40… Did you have a little mini identity crisis after you turned 40? It’s ok, I won’t tell anyone! Personally I’ve multiple identity crisis’ in the three years since I turned 40, with no signs of slowing down! One of the little crisis’ you may be going through, have gone through, or will go through, is a personal style one. What are you supposed to wear now? Has your style evolution stopped just because…
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Wearing Colored Tights Is Easy When You Know How
Read moreThe strangest thing happens when I wear an outfit with colored tights. Someone will almost always tell me “I love those tights, I wish I could wear them”. I respond with some version of “of course you can wear them” which is met with some version of “oh no, I could never do such colorful tights”. Guys, it’s happened enough to inspire me to write this post. Let me shout loud enough for everyone to hear WEARING COLORED TIGHTS IT…
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Matching Pajama Sets Will Change Your Life
Read moreAt work recently, we were shooting pajama sets (I’m a stylist so I mean “shooting” as in “taking pictures” not “shooting” as in “putting pajama sets on top of a fence with some old tin cans and using them for target practice”) and the model said, with a bit more attitude than I cared for, “what kind of dork wears matching pajamas?”. I went to speak up but I experience a brief moment of shame and thought “wait, am I…
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I Don’t Do New Years Resolutions, Unless They’re Style Resolutions
Read moreYou know what the most popular resolutions are? Eat better and go to the gym, BORING! And do you know when those resolutions are broken? February. That’s right, most resolutions only last a month, which is why in general, I don’t do them. But this year I’m making an exception, for style resolutions. And while they are my style resolutions, I think they’re resolutions most of could benefit from. So feel free to adopt them for yourself! Don’t Chase Trends…
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I Want Emily Ratajkowski’s Zebra Knee High Boots
Read moreI typically don’t look to Emily Ratajkowski for style inspiration. We have very different aesthetics, and very different bodies, so it’s not often that I see something on her and think “I need to have that”. Actually, I think this is the first time I’ve ever said that about something she’s wearing. I am full on obsessed with these zebra boots. Now Miss Ratajkowski’s boots are Proenza Schouler Trap Boots and they’re about $1200, which we know I do not…
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5 Outfits That Prove Velvet Is The Superior Holiday Fabric
Read moreOne of my favorite things about the holidays? Getting dressed! I feel like the time between Thanksgiving and New Years gives us a license to pull out all the stops when we get dressed…and one of my favorite stops? Velvet. Velvet is not only comfy and cozy, velvet is also incredibly chic, regal even. I wear it two and half seasons a year (like half of spring is still velvet weather IMHO), but I really WEAR it during the holidays.…
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I’ve Changed My Mind About White Button Downs
Read moreListen, I can admit when I’m wrong. It doesn’t happen often, but still I can admit it, and friends I was wrong about white button downs. I avoided them like the plague for years, decades even! They just felt so wrong to me, and I couldn’t wrap my brain around why they were on everyone’s wardrobe must have list. I’ve come to realize my problem is less with white button downs in general, and more with fitted white button downs.…
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Outfits That Will Make You Want A Boiler Suit
Read moreA master class on how to style a boiler suit.. Personally, I LOVE a boiler suit. I think it might be the most vesatile piece of clothing you can buy. It’s cool, it’s functional, it’s sexy, it’s FASHION! I know people can be intimidated by the very idea of wearing a boiler suit. Are they unflattering? Is a boiler suit even comfortable? Will I look like Billy Joel in the Uptown Girl video? Let me say what even is “flattering”,…