When you live good and hard you learn and know deep down in that life is often hard and messy. Hard and messy in that we all are pretty much in it together and that to bring style and grace to the every day, messy as it may be, is a very good thing.

Today, every day dress bakes, cooks and sets the table from a deep closet: when you have good things on hand it’s easy to show the love. Stopped at the farm stand and picked up all that was in season, payed cash, how about that, and then decided what to cook. Zucchini and Cannellini, fourteen your old daughter proclaimed after dinner that she was obsessed with it. Sour cream banana bread, Three-Sisters Soup and Halibut in Pea Sauce for a Tuesday night send-off, husband and second son are going fishing, second daughter is headed to Boston MA, all tomorrow, and we showed the love further by setting the table with linen, candles, and fresh flowers.

Yes, there are bumps in the road, for sure. Let’s all use the good stuff a little more often and work to bring style and grace to the every day. Here’s to having a deep closet. Makes things easier.

xoxo

PS Had many great photos, kind of thinking that cyberspace has  a time limit max for photo uploading, or maybe it’s just time to move towards the next thing. Grocery store flowers, simply cut them off at elbow height so we could all see each other across the table, and china coffee cups for soup bowls. Just haven’t had time to restock the cupboard with proper bowls, sometimes you have to make do. Living hard seems to make those every day cereal/soup bowls kind of disappear.

Having four daughter’s that all love clothing, wonder where they got that from, every day dress shows here one skirt, three ways.   Summer event dressing is easy when you have a couple of beautiful new pieces and you’re not afraid to wear them time and again. Trying to teach my girls that as well, that’s taking time. Clothing confidence can be developed. It’s a good thing we all wear pretty much the same size, lots of sharing going on.

This skirt packs well and begs for flat shoes. I suppose you could do a heel, would feel way too precious for me though. All of these looks have been posted  before but thought that bringing them all together might inspire: skirt went kind of dressed up with white blouse and black and silver turquoise belt, dressed down with tank, denim shirt, brown belt, suede boots. East coast lakefront dinner look shows the skirt with the matching blouse, creating a bit of a dress effect, and every day dress always loves a dress.

Love wearing clothing in all different ways and many times over. Thinking of wearing this skirt again out this week to an antique car show. Not sure with what yet, that will come. One skirt, three ways, soon four.

 

As in Moss, not the other beautiful one, the new mum.

Lifestyle post: sometimes things are too much fun, way too hard, or just one of those days. When the enjoy a glass of wine at the end of the day gets a little carried away, here is what we call the kate.

Real Coca-Cola , not that diet stuff, and an Advil or two. Take anytime, two in the morning, five in the morning, seven in the morning, perhaps even twelve noon. Read somewhere sometime that that’s what super stylish Kate Moss does after a late night.

Thinking that if you are into fashion, over the age of twenty, enjoy a glass of wine or two, the kate might be a helpful remedy.

Channeling Kate Moss anyway I can, even if it’s with a Coca-Cola and an Advil after a long week of work.

Every day dress informally offers up the kate. Love that the dog doesn’t get too concerned with every day challenges.

Have a great weekend all. xoxo

 

Not quite sure where you get to help an 84-year-old woman pick out three new outfits, show a very fashionable  woman new things for Fall 2013 that travels all over the country and has a fondness for quality workmanship and fine fabrics, and assure another woman that yes she is really a size M in knitwear and not size L, all while working from home and wearing a cashmere tee, stretch linen pants, and rockstud shoes.

Yes, work is work. When you love what you do it can be best work. Every day dress, we love what we do. Helping women find clothes they look and feel great in. We even get to cook dinner. Wild halibut, coho salmon, local broccoli, local corn, local romaine, two kinds of fresh bread with of course salted real butter. Had we had more time would have totally trimmed that corn to even lengths. Traded corn trimming for a decadent hour of weeding in the garden. 🙂

Today’s outfit was great. Never felt like changing even once. Handled the entire day’s activities and then some.

Always room for more best work.

Pale Heather Grey Cashmere Modern Polo Pullover | Worth New York Spring 2013

Black Linen Sydney Pant | Worth New York Summer 2013

Valentino Rockstud Shoes | can go all day in them no kidding | Valentino

ps. Cashmere Pullover purchased from ongoing sample sale…email here if you too are interested in some great samples. rebecca@everydaydress.com.

Have so much to say about this thought so let’s start easy and begin with fashion: we’ve all probably been there, some beautiful resort town and we make a purchase that feels fun and right at the time only to return home to real life and think ‘what was I thinking?’

Enter crazy suede orange shoes. Purchased last summer in Newport RI, oldest daughter was working retail for the summer so why not support the cause. Husband isn’t really all about them, he likes a more refined look, try to please but sometimes you’ve just gotta take a break and shoes are pretty safe. Don’t look down, husband. 🙂

Anyways, bought the shoes, so now what? If not now, when. Decided to pull them out on Saturday as we were headed to niece’s first birthday party. Birthday parties and turning one are all about fun so why not crazy suede orange shoes? It was outdoors, you can only really wear a wedge or a flat, and the middle of July so if not now, when?

Talk with clients all the time about if not now, when: we all have great clothes, let’s get them out and wear them. Most common cry of not now is when I lose the weight, then I’ll have and wear some great clothes. Women, now is now, wear those things you bought while on vacation in some small resort town. Now is now, exercise in some way today and put on your good clothes. Dress your body for as it is now, life moves so darn fast I just have to say it again, if not now, when?

Every day dress wears crazy orange suede shoes to celebrate beautiful niece turning one. Let’s all celebrate life and family. If not now, when? xoxo

M, after you told me you liked these shoes with the wide legged linen pant just couldn’t do ‘one hit wonder.’ Another time, baby, it was fun today. 🙂

Promised it would all be all about Fall come Monday but like all good things, everything seems to take longer than expected. So let’s all just stay tuned.

Could go on and on about if not now, when: the garden, the attic, the basement, the second language I’ve promised to learn, the books we all want to read, the work we all do, easier to just get dressed and get on with it. Every day dress.

Sometimes it’s hotter than heck and the last thing you feel like doing is putting on clothes and heading downtown. Downtown and clothes you must, so here’s what was happening:

Husband left early Thursday morning for the office in pink striped button down shirt, nice neutral jeans. He calls after his long day and says let’s have dinner out. Never mind the prepped wild line-caught fish, that can wait twenty-four hours, maybe, but don’t want to have him wait.

Pull on the lightest weight striped shirt I can find, wouldn’t you know sample sale piece, perks of work, and grab second daughter’s white jeans, can’t find mine anywhere. Have two youngest slip on dresses, it’s hot out there and every other young women is wearing a dress too.

Last weekend was all about dresses and just not in the mood so tight jeans it was. Kind of wishing for the rocker chic emaciated look, never ever happening here so have to own the tight fit.

Every day dress on the street and hoping all women have courage to own their own personal look. What else is there?

Have a great weekend all. Come Monday it’s Fall 2013 and building a team in Rochester and Albany NY. Email here if you know of anyone we should be talking to, rebecca@everydaydress.com. We believe all women can wear and have clothing they feel good and look great in.

Normally not one to suggest full on prints but here goes: kind of loving the dressed up dressed down feel of this maxi skirt, posted twice here before, and the matching silk off the shoulder blouse. All together now.

This outfit felt pretty great for husband’s work retreat Saturday night dinner last weekend. He loves when flat shoes are worn, and couldn’t think of anything better than Manolo Blahnik crocodile sandals, yes, the dog has chewed them but still love him/them, to finish the dressed up dressed down look.

Would love to hear your thoughts.

Every day dress is all together now. Sort of. Summer is a crazy time. Love to all.

 

Watermint and blossom, those two words can kind of get your attention during a July heat wave.

Honestly, have no idea what I was thinking when I signed on for full-time work with the husband, kids, dogs, homes, etc., especially in the middle of July. Feel like we are treading water and seems like every women I speak with seems to feel the same way.

So, since the work is full-time, here goes: Every day dress is styling many women for their busy days from the Spring Summer 2013 Sample Sale. Today I happily outfitted a women who stays away from the mall at all costs and she carried out two silk scarves, that black cardigan that is a wardrobe essential and has been posted about here before, a jersey geometric top, and a cardigan sweater that has the polish of any jacket.

Pictured here? What was worn for husband’s work retreat last weekend at Geneva on the Lake. Watermint and Blossom Silk Twisted Halter Dress and Pale Blossom Croc Belt. Very ladylike. Incidentally, have both the dress and belt available at Sample Sale, 50% off. Email me here, rebecca@everydaydress.com if you would like me to see if we have your size. Many other great samples that may tempt you as well.

If you are a woman and working full-time and feel like you need a little pick-up before the weekend with something new and fun to wear, I can help you.

Every day dress is working Sample Sale in the middle of July. Why not go for a little watermint and blossom?

 

It’s been hot. And humid. Actually retreated from the country house to the city house where there is air conditioning. Husband has had me on the run and eating and drinking almost everything in upstate New York. Thank you ponte.

Most women I work with have a five pound or so swing. Five pounds up, five pounds down. Ponte knit is there for you when you when you want to drink it all in and maybe even order the house cheesecake. Oh, yes.

Ordered this dress in one size up because that was all there was. When it arrived thought it needed the tailor, a little loose in the hips. No longer. After a good weekend or two it fits just right, could maybe even go up one, but went back to the gym this morning so we are going down to where we were before all this fun.

For summer in the city after a full day of working sample sale, every day dress does ponte knit. If you would like to shop sample sale, email me here at rebecca@everydaydress.com. Slowly helping women with beautiful things to wear.

Husband likes to hit the road and change it up as often as possible. That means being ready to go when he says go.

Yes, maybe a little old-fashioned but it works. Six kids, businesses and property and still want to get away from it all at times and boy, better have the clothes ready. When you feel good in what you’re wearing you can get away super quick and focus on those and everything else around you. That’s the important stuff but great clothes sure do help.

For this road trip to Finger Lakes Wine Country and Geneva on the Lake, wore the long silk dress pretty much still packed from the AZ trip. Added a new sweater from the current sample sale, good wardrobes evolve over time, and always love a good sample sale.

Dressed for dinner in all white linen, one color and you don’t have to think, pants from last season, halter top Summer 2013. Pulled the hair back, no time for that, and day one down for hit the road Summer 2013 road trip.

Happy weekend everyone. Hope you all have some great getaway clothes on deck for when it’s time to go.

Interested in shopping sample sale? Email me here, rebecca@everydaydress.com. Been carefully outfitting many women for their great hit the road getaway trips. Don’t need much but what you take needs to count.

Every day dress.