Day Party! Or, Dresses to Wear While Drinking During Daylight
Daytime social events are a tricky beast, dress-wise. You don’t want to look like you forgot that you weren’t going to the office that day, or that you’re six hours early for drinks and dinner. But daytime events are also…
A Cocktail Dress to Rule the World
Everyone needs a go-to cocktail dress, one that is fairly seasonless and immune to trends. This is easier to find in theory than it is in practice. There’s an entire gauntlet out there of dresses with some combination of the…
Yeah, You Probably Want a Tuxedo Blazer Too
Why stop at tuxedo pants? Tuxedo-style blazers for women are another great card to have in your hand. No, you won’t wear them with your tuxedo pants. That would be silly. Zara yellow wing-collared blazer Religion black cropped tux jacket…
Gown Me.
There aren’t a lot of black tie events on my social calendar (wait…probably because I don’t have a social calender), but when someone is kind enough to toss me a formal invite bone, it generally causes panic around here. At…
Semi-Semi-Formal Event Dressing
We all know what formal wear means. Also called black-tie, formal means the dressiest of dressy, a full-length gown (but not a maxi-dress), and as much glitz and glitter and updo-ness as your personal style dictates. Then there’s semi-formal. In…
Guest Dress
My niece Martha is getting married in July (yay, Martha and Tim!), and I need an outfit. Getting dressed right for occasions is all about the event parameters, so here’s the brief: 1. Outdoor wedding and reception, 2. In Northern…
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