Happy birthday, America! I love the Fourth of July. I love the nostalgia and innocent summer fun. I love red, white and blue trifles, stars and stripes everything, barbecues and fireworks. We’re looking forward to a long weekend of summer…
I bought this Nanette Lepore skirt and top on sale at Bloomindale’s a few years ago. I like shopping Nanette Lepore’s spring collections. There are always pretty pieces for summer, in eye-catching colors and patterns, and everything is just easy…
When you buy everything on sale, you wear the same pieces again and again, styled in different ways. That’s the fun. I wore this 3.1 Phillip Lim dress here, on a much colder day, with a jean jacket and coat,…
This spring has redefined the concept of high/low dressing: one day you’re clothing yourself for temperatures in the 80s, the next you’re layered up for the 40s. For many of us, it has been one big roller coaster of winterizing…
Sneakers are definitely having a fashion moment. My ratio of sneaker to heel purchases these days is about 4:1. Losing side: heels. As a city dweller, I can’t deny the comfort factor. But there’s more to it than blister-free feet.
Everyone has a different approach to Casual Friday, which really depends on whether you work in a creative or more buttoned-up field. Working in media my entire career, first in magazines and then at a web company, I’ve always been…
Most of us have a uniform: a go-to look for daily life. Since becoming a mommy, mine has been skinny jeans with ankle boots, a sweatshirt or sweater, jacket or blazer and a roomy tote.
When it comes to putting an outfit together, I love mixing prints probably more than anything else. I don’t really follow any rules for doing so such as making sure the color or the scale is the same, or whatever…
When the Refined Side asked a group of bloggers including yours truly to each pick a glamourous item from our closets, I immediately thought of these Dolce & Gabbana heels. I saw them online this past fall and was instantly…