Sometimes I feel like an eggplant …

Although our wardrobe has been marching steadily back to its old black-white-gray-and-a-bright-accent-color palette, sometimes a few of The Style Sisters want to revisit  the full-monty color thing. If it’s the quiet sisters, we end up wearing something like the purple-and-green, flowers-and-stripes, eggplant-y outfit they chose for us recently. (Paris Gray-Brown wants us to say “aubergine-y,” because she is a snob, but we are not, so eggplant-y it is. ) We […]

Pass the Salt and Pepper, Please

I love the look of salt-and-peppery black-and-white yarns, so I’ve had sweaters like this before. But somehow I never find quite the right thing to wear them with, and they end up back at the thrift store from whence they came (or one of its many cousins). This  one lucked out, though. Either it’s just the right balance of white and black, or it just happened to find the perfect […]

“What Shall I Bring You from Iceland?”

How lucky am I to be asked such a question whenever my globe-trotting friend takes off for foreign lands! This time, as she headed to Iceland, I, finding myself in the midst of a serious decluttering campaign, asked her to please bring for The Man in the Plaid Shirt (a geologist by trade and by nature) nothing more than a rock and for me something from a thrift store in […]

Baby, It’s Cold Outside!

This past Friday morning as we were dressing for work, the temperature was 6 degrees with a wind chill of 19 below and a projected high of 11. I could have driven to work, but, along with The Style Sisters (even the quiet ones), I like to amuse myself now and then by taking on stupid challenges. They were all willing to give it a go. “Good for you guys!” […]

I Don’t Love You, Pink, But I Like You

  Pink and I have had an on and off sort of friendship. When I was a little nipper, I liked the color, or at least I thought I did; maybe I just knew that it was my mother’s favorite and I wanted her to like me, so I liked it. My bedroom walls were pink—a deep, bubblegum sort of pink that’s now called Pepto Bismol Pink (for obvious reasons) […]

One Hot Monday in November . . .

After kicking us in the pants for a few weeks with weirdly cold temps (in the low 30’s but with wind chills of 18 or 19), November all of a sudden decided to change it up and nail us with a 63-degree-high gray and rainy day that of course started off much cooler. We’d just about gotten used to cold-weather dressing, for Pete’s sake, and here we were first thing […]

Start with the Yellow Elephant Socks

The Heart of the Matter Actually, this was yesterday’s ensemble. We were prevented from writing last night by a manic need to rearrange the books that line the walls of our little Yoga Room. So, back in time a bit. . . .  A windy and chilly morning it was (28 degrees), but the high would be 53  (43 with windchill). What to wear that would keep us thermally comfortable […]

“O hushed October morning mild . . .”

What to  wear on a summer-like fall day that calls to mind  Robert Frost’s lovely and pensive poem, “October”? From Frost’s 1913 collection A Boy’s Will, the surprisingly contemporary-sounding poem exactly and wondrously describes a day just like today, when the air warms and we’re given a reprieve from the inevitable march toward winter, with its wild winds and deep cold. Temperatures began in the 50’s and promised to climb […]

Silken Segues

Early fall here in the northern-ish part of the Left Coast is sort of like late spring: erratic, unsettled, often with chilly mornings and evenings and quite warm temps sandwiched in between. What to wear in such transitional times? Layers, of course. And silk. Because silk breathes, long sleeves protect you from the chill and feel just fine when temperatures climb, too. And although there’s silk and there’s silk, just […]