While we’re all squeezing the last bit out of summer twenty fifteen and simultaneously trying to get back into a steady work groove, a new black sweater has been on the mind.

Happens always this time of year: the summer wardrobe feels spent and I’m feeling in limbo and wanting some change. Oldest daughter is feeling it too, she texted me from her fancy NYC job all I want to do is browse and buy fall clothing !! Not ready to do the wardrobe shift over, it’s still hot as heck, yet I’ve been around long enough to know that most women will wear and benefit from a new black sweater come mid-August. There are those cool nights you can pair it with your white denim or be bold and wear it casual over your swimsuit with wet hair. Come those cooler fall days, and come they will, simple to pair with standard black.

Just ordered this Black Leather Trimmed Cowl Neck Pullover, the one modeled by stunning Elaine Irwin on the left, and can’t wait to put it into the daily/nightly/weekly rotation.

Every day dress, a new black sweater.

Black Leather Trimmed Cowl Neck Pullover | Worth New York

70% Wool | 30% Cashmere | 100% Leather

The bag obsession continues: started with the very first real paycheck at the age of sixteen and now at fifty still can’t kick it. Good/bad habits, so hard to break.

With age comes knowledge, and now that we know that blue jeans baby are eighty percent of the daily rotation, picked up the last bag with that look in mind. It’s so denim, right?

And, as we’re about food too here’s what was cooking: boneless leg of lamb, roasted potatoes, haricots verts, green salad. As a stylist should have put the green in the middle, better presentation, oh, well. Live and learn, kind of in a hurry.

Every day dress, blue jeans baby. Dress, bags, and food for life.

Some things simply sell out, done, can’t get it. Bought this top in both colors, navy and black. Shown here, navy with floral silk pant, in hot hot Paris.

DIY home improvement projects, wood glue, black scarf tie top and laundry duty simply don’t mix, so only have the navy left. This top makes the rotation here from the fourteen year old to the fifty year old and have an almost seventy year old client rocking it too. Worth New York, please recut, black.

Every day dress and oh, that top. Pack it up and wear it eight different ways. Trunk show going on now through August 19th.

We’re all about stacking the closet for fall twenty fifteen, and here’s a look for all on the go women:

image | Worth New York

Total travel and runaround outfit, and, the jacket you can make white, it’s reversible. This look will work for all of us. Change your shoe/boot, change your bag, reverse the jacket, it’s all about you.

In the meantime while there’s still some summertime left, we’re all about make it white. Travel outfit worn on the train from London to Paris, stayed at the train station and cabbed it to the hotel, therefore the heel, kind of #walkable. Céline sunglasses always help.

 

It’s Monday, we’re back in the home office deep, prepping to help women build wardrobes that get them dressed and on their way.

Whatever your day look is, your night look can always be a quick black dress. Pulled this one out of the bag on the floor and shimmied into it for an on the go dinner date. Red lip, wrap that was carried and slept with on the plane, and done.

Walked days and miles all over the streets of Edinburgh Scotland. Wore the ubiquitous: white shirt, blue jeans, black jacket. Modern women seem to have these things, often in multiples, and in heavy rotation. To make it my own added camel stacked heel boots, obviously a black bra underneath, and structured shoulder bag, umbrella tucked inside. There’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing choices. Outfit felt right, was easy to move in, and covered all outdoor conditions.

Easing back into the real world, and will be all about styling the women in my life for their changing days this week Thursday 8/13 to next week Wednesday 8/19 in Buffalo NY, and then again Tuesday, 8/25 to Friday 8/28 in Rochester NY.

Streetwalking it is.

 

Sometimes you just want things to slow down for a minute or two, to hold that place in time. It just doesn’t seem to work that way. Third daughter reminded me at the grocer today that ‘you just gotta do what you gotta do’.

Trying to get back in the game after 16 days away: three different countries, never been gone from home that long. Not a traveler by spirit, always like to be grounded, yet the one I love likes to move.

Two outfit photos that were posted to Instagram, both in Paris France. Yes, it was amazing.

Hoping you all are catching and creating some great memories. Thinking every woman needs some good walking boots. Simple style tip: easy hair, easy make-up, neutral manicure.

Every day dress, hit pause please. Monday is just around the corner. xo

    

For day-tripping around historic and sacred St Andrews, left the blue jeans back at the hotel and instead paired lace and fringe. Wore the same black cashmere v-neck, the light yet warm jacket, and a nice neat black bag. Carried a wool wrap and cashmere hat in the bag, and had an umbrella in the car. Outfit felt right, and those darn boots have logged 8.9 miles or 15,000 steps daily. When we get home they are going straight to the cobbler for some tender loving care.

Not quite right is using a cell in a cemetery, these are modern days and I guess that cell should have been left in the car as well.

As for the lace cutout pants, normally you would think of those with a heel and for dress, it’s fun to pair them with something unexpected like last season’s beloved Valentino fringed boots. Hand hemmed these myself and cut about two inches off the bottom, with a nice shoe they show just a little ankle, and with the low heeled boots like showing a little rolled Wolford sock. Also, always love to wear navy and black together, mixing dark neutrals can add some depth to your outfit. Even the husband got into the navy and black, wearing a navy v-neck, black pants, and lighter blue jacket.

As for posting, it’s been slow yet I love to share and keep an online photo diary. We’ve been moving fast and hope that you and yours are all enjoying your version of modern days too. xoxo

 

Good thing two of our favorite things are denim and black. Pretty chill here in Edinburgh, Scotland. Even the room matches the wardrobe. The tub in the bedroom, nice touch.

You absolutely need good shoes or boots for walking (and socks), an umbrella, a cashmere sweater, and a light-weight yet warm jacket.

Favorite denim cut for now is Citizens of Humanity Emerson, a relaxed kind of boyfriend fit. Have basically been living in these: wore them on the over-night plane last Thursday, and practically every day since, now Thursday again. You really don’t need all that much, and when your clothes kind of all go together it’s so much easier to get away light. Three more nights in Scotland, then back to London, and then Paris.

Every day dress, denim and black in Edinburgh.

Hotel du Vin | Edinburgh, Scotland

ps. Packed so light forgot the hairbrush, yesterday had to stop and pick one up quick.

 

Anyone who’s ever traveled with the husband knows that there is absolutely no down time whatsoever, you are on-call twenty-four seven, and you walk walk walk.

We hit London last week Friday and landed in Edinburgh yesterday.

Definitely buy flowers for your hotel room, and definitely wear a scarf.

 

Every day dress, gotta go. Husband calling. xo