what to wear

Renée is wrote in asking for help with packing for a trip to London for a six weeks with her husband and kids: I adore your What to Wear posts, and I’m hoping you might be able to help me pick a “uniform” for an upcoming extended trip to London. I’ll be spending six weeks…

My friend Margaret and I were talking about how hard it is to find the perfect black dress, skirt or pair of pants. It always seems like the harder you look, the more impossible it is to find. You’re better off just wait patiently for the universe to decide to grant you the ideal closet…

The March heatwave in San Francisco has finally broken and there’s even a little bit of rain! Perfect time to get cozy for St. Patrick’s day in a simple, every-day outfit. No plastic light-up shamrock necklace needed for a festive of celebration of all things Guinness, corned beef, Chris O’Dowd and green. Sweater – I…

Hannah wrote in with a What to Wear request last week: I am going to be godmother to one of my best friend’s sons in May in Massachusetts.  It will be a Roman Catholic ceremony and while I’ve certainly been to mass plenty of times I’ve never been to a Catholic christening.  I’m also at…

Here in San Francisco, the weather has been bright, sunny and warm (way warmer than usual) for the past few days. It’s still March, though, and I’m not ready to switch from winter to spring colors just yet. The trick has been to find lightweight combinations for running around town that still have a winter…

Today’s What to Wear request comes to us all the way from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Eleanor wrote in to ask: I’m a California transplant living abroad. My fiancé and I live in Ethiopia but are heading to Italy in a few weeks. We are planning on having engagement photos taken in Rome and I’m at a…

Your wedding season requests keep coming! Laura recently wrote in for help dressing for  a wedding at San Francisco’s City Hall:  I’ve been reading your blog forever and never had a thing to write in about until now! I’m 34, have two kids (4 and a 7 month old nursing baby) and am going to…

Newsies opened last night with SHN at the Orpheum in San Francisco! Our awesome friends Greg and Kevin gave us tickets to come along with them as a belated birthday present.  In case your memory of the 1992 movie starring Christian Bale is rusty – the show is about a bunch of extremely energetic starving street…

Wedding season is almost here! Those save-the-date cards are arriving in mailboxes and creating wardrobe havoc all across the country. Weddings can be so tough to dress for: no black, no white, no red. If you want to wear pants instead of defaulting to a dress, it is even harder. Catherine wrote in recently with…

Andrea wrote in with a great request for the weekend in New York: I’m taking the train in to NYC next Saturday to see Sting in his closing night on Broadway.  I’ll be taking the train in and walking a lot all day before taking the last train out.  It’s cold.  Winter.  NYC.  I don’t…