The most common thing I hear from brides who tried on fitted wedding dresses and walked away unsure: 'It looked amazing, but I couldn't sit down properly.' That's a fit problem. Not a…

I attended a black-tie gala at the Mandarin Oriental in Chicago last October. Three of the most striking women in that room were in fully covered, long-sleeved gowns. Not one of them looked…

Gold shoes. That's where most yellow formal dress questions end up, and it's the right instinct. But getting yellow to look genuinely formal — not just cheerful — involves the fabric, the specific…

Here's the honest version of beach wedding dress shopping at 50 or older: the environmental variables are more complicated than most guides admit. You want to look polished and feel genuinely comfortable —…

Graduation ceremonies are long. Like, genuinely longer than you'd think — you're there early, waiting around, sitting through a whole lot of other names before yours. The dress you pick needs to make…

Graduation day sneaks up on you. One week you're cramming for finals, and suddenly there's a cap, a gown, and the very real question of what on earth to wear underneath it all.…

Red gets a bad rap as a graduation dress color. People second-guess it — "Is it too much?", Will it clash with the gown?" — and end up defaulting back to white. Which,…

Black tie on a wedding invitation. Three words that somehow make a whole closet feel inadequate. If you've been there — staring at perfectly nice dresses, wondering if any of them are actually…

Beach weddings are honestly some of my favorite occasions to dress for. The stakes feel lower — the setting is so beautiful that nobody's scrutinizing what you're wearing the way they would at…

Here's the thing about 'casual' on a fall wedding invitation: the word is doing zero work. It doesn't tell you what fabric. Doesn't tell you whether the venue is a barn or a…