I love to buy a new bag in September! It’s a hangover from living in the Northeast till I was 30. Back to school, back to college, young professional — in all my shopping iterations I wanted a new handbag… Continue Reading
Seasonal shopping: for ourselves, not for the rules. I have been envious of women (usually fictional or famous women) in magazine spreads who purchase their seasonal wardrobes all at a swoop. They are quoted saying things like “I divide my… Continue Reading
Do you fall in love, or get infatuated with your clothes? (I am not comparing this love to the Real Thing: none of us loves our clothes the way we love our children, husbands and pets . . . I… Continue Reading
How to cure yourself of size phobia. We all know clothing size is just a number, not a marker of our beauty, smarts or self-worth. But we are a size-minded culture and many of us (me too, of course) sometimes… Continue Reading
How to deal with wardrobe boredom. Do you ever get the urge to toss your whole closet and start over? I mean, just a fantasy: a clean slate, an empty closet, a couple extra thousand $$ in hand? I get this… Continue Reading
The beauty of experience. I’ve been thinking about how aging or experience translates to beauty. That’s what aging is, after all – experience at living. And experience helps us in every area of our lives: at parenting, at our jobs… Continue Reading
What would your clothes say if they could talk? For most of my young life I didn’t give much thought to what my clothes were saying about me. I mean, I cared about how I looked, but didn’t focus consciously… Continue Reading
My rules for wearing vintage clothing, now that I am vintage. I love vintage clothing! Love it. (My definition of vintage, and I realize it’s fluid, includes clothing and accessories from the 1980’s and earlier). For years I collected and… Continue Reading