Every season or so it’s a good idea to update the makeup. Keeps things fresh. Keeps one motivated to put it on before facing the world, professional or simply runaround day. Putting on some makeup for yourself and others shows you live with intent. Kind of shows that you’re positive thinking, optimistic, and plan on making your day count. All good, right?

Here’s what’s in the fall makeup kit of every day dress: dark nail color, of course, and the new dark is green. Chanel Le Vernis Nail Colour, 591 Alchimie and 601 Mysterious. Have been wearing these for several weeks now and loving the look. Haven’t used the metallic on the hands yet, kind of like to keep the sparkle on the toes only. Makes me nervous to have glitter on the fingertips, dark is enough of a statement.

With the new dark nail gotta have a nude lip. Yes, the big time fashion world shows dark nails and a dark mouth, just can’t get there. Pretty much every time I put the dark lip color on I end up wiping it off before leaving the house. Maybe because the preference is to eat and drink every couple of hours and the dark mouth is way too hard to keep up? Picked up two, never enough nudes, Chanel and the new Marc Jacobs. Chanel is Rouge Coco 55 Icône and Marc Jacobs 112 Severine. Both so easy to wear and to reapply often, even without a mirror.

The advice for women as they age is to move away from powder blush and into a cream. Looks more natural on mature skin, find that concept mature skin kind of funny, but decided to add two to the regime. Le Blush Crème De Chanel in 61 Destiny and 63 Révélation. Product is super easy to use and goes on best with the fingertips. Darker in the hollow, brighter on the cheek.

Eye shadow and liner are the best. Do the eyes well in the morning and they can last all day. To keep the green thing going have been using the new quad by Chanel: Les 4 Ombres,  43 Mystère. Always throw those miniature brushes that come with it upon opening and use instead a proper eye shadow brush or the fingers. This one here, which is super great and gifted to me by my mom, Chanel Eyeshadow Blender 19. Highly recommend it. Black eyeliner, pretty much all time favorite, and picked this one up at Sephora with the Marc Jacobs launch. Thought I was purchasing the pencil and came home with the liquid. Oh, well. Haven’t quite gotten the hand of it yet so still using the MAC pencil, not shown.

Chanel has done some heavy promotion with respect to their new product, Les Beiges, Healthy Glow Sheer Colour. They’re introducing it as a new makeup approach. From the poster size brochure Play It Your Way. Enhance, Brighten or Bronze…and Beyond. It can be worn alone or over foundation and has an SPF of 15. Anything new makeup wise by Chanel and I’m in. Bags and shoes need serious commitment, nail colour and bronzer give a quick fix.

Is it a great new product? Must say absolutely yes. Have been wearing it for several weeks and it saved the face yesterday. For in and out business travel to NYC for the day, put this compact in by bag for touch ups. As the face was done at 5:15 am for a 6:45 am flight and the return was 6:20 pm, it had a lot of touch ups to do. Performed brilliantly. And, no mess. Liquid foundation was put on and left at home in the morning, Les Beiges N° 30 was used for touch ups all day and had me beautifully covered. Felt good.

So, hoping to inspire you if you haven’t already to put on some makeup and to find your new dark, dark or not.

Every day dress does the new dark and it’s green.

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Ordered this dress for upcoming trip with husband and second daughter to Spain, in five days no less, to help get her settled for her semester abroad and to celebrate our 26 years of marriage. Decided at the last-minute to wear it out this past weekend before we leave town.

Was it a little over the top when the men in the room were wearing jeans, expensive suede loafers, and Cucinelli blazers? Not at all. Sometimes it’s fun to wear something that is maybe a little ‘event’ for a night out that is more kind of ‘regular’.  This was a house party, a gift gathering event for the WNY Women’s Foundation, and there were about three dozen of us in all. By keeping the hair dead simple and no jewelry at all the simply red lace sheath felt just that, a simply red lace sheath. Really kind of liked wearing it when there wasn’t any pressure to be wearing the big event look. Much more fun to make it an every day dress.

You’ve probably seen the red lace dress around a little lately, Michael Kors, Dolce & Gabanna, Valentino. This dress here, by Worth New York, is in very good company. Can’t wait to wear it again in Spain, and France, and then again back in the states.

Every day dress is a simply red lace sheath. Wearing the fancy clothes a little more often can be unexpected and fun.

Simply Red Lace Sheath | Worth New York Fall 2013

Weekend has been a blur but a good blur. Started a new program at work: get and be positive, make a plan, make it count, and spent Thursday and Friday making it count. Productivity and new worksheets, just like new books for back to school, felt good.

Friday night husband came home and he wanted out, he worked hard all week too. Had five minutes to get dressed, two teenaged girls that were all tucked in with laptops after first exhausting week at back to school at 7 pm had five minutes too. We all went blue blue blue.

Grabbed all that was blue.  Blue jeans, blue silk top, blue patent bag, blue blanket wrap. Had to be quick, we were all on the go. Sometimes picking one color and gathering everything you’ve got makes it easy to get out the door fast. Nothing new here, simply all wardrobe pieces collected over time.

Hoping everyone had a great back to school weekend.

Every day dress.

Blue Jeans | Paige

Blue Silk Blouse | Roberto Cavalli

Blue Patent Bag | Louis Vuitton

Blue Blanket Wrap | Hermés

For a working mom of six, back to school is very cool. Love the kids, love my work.

For back to school runaround wore these pink patent Gucci loafers picked up while traveling in AZ in late June. When contemplating between the always black and this hot pink, husband said pink. Used to wear these loafers when first having kids twenty some years ago. Gucci has reintroduced the shoe to celebrate the 60th anniversary of this iconic style. Love how all great things have a way of coming around. Kind of like back to school. 🙂 Thinking of wearing these with a long below the knee skirt.

1953 horsebit loafer in patent leather | Gucci | and at Nordstrom

So many times, when getting dressed, it’s important to consider footwear first. When your feet hit the mark and have bases covered wherever you are or wherever you go, everything else can pretty much fall into place.

Started with flat tan suede boots. They were fine in the rain and like age seem to get better over time and with a few well-earned scruff marks. Flat sandals with exposed feet don’t seem to feel right once September hits.

Next came skinny jeans. Kept the wash dark and clean as we were headed to a picnic and didn’t want to look too casual. It’s still hot and humid so white linen finished it off.

Yes, it’s transition time and I think the trick is to mix in some fall season things, like suede boots, into your current wardrobe that still needs to be beat the heat. A head to toe summer look feels a little tired and a head to toe fall look is tough to pull off when it’s still in the high 80’s here in the northeast.

Clothes keeping note: instead of expensive dry cleaning and weekly turnaround time, have been machine washing all linen in a front load washer, less agitation that way, short delicate cycle and no fabric softener to keep the fabric crisp. Lay flat to dry and finish with a hot iron and spray starch. Ironing beautiful fabric yourself, much like weeding the garden, can be very therapeutic when life feels too darn fast.

Every day dress and footwear first.

Wishing everyone a safe and memorable Labor Day. xo

tan suede boots | Chanel

dark denim jeans | Paige Skyline Ankle Peg

white linen halter | Worth New York

bracelet | Hermés

 

Really wanted to wear white, as posted before, and did for 9 am soccer game, when it came time for dinner out and the sky was gray with clouds and rain all around, just had to go dark.

It was one of those times when you just don’t know what to wear. Consulted with second daughter for her opinion, she’s all packed for a semester in Spain, and she offered up these terrific Blank black jeans. She said, ‘mom, they’re $80, so different from the usual $220, and I love them.’ Well, second daughter, I think I’m loving them too. Thank you for sharing. Paired them with a Gucci sleeveless spotted shell, from the closet archive probably five or six years old, and those old Manolo Blahnik shoes and new season Worth New York push-up sleeves blazer and we were good to go. Outfit felt right.

Three of four of us went spotted, oldest daughter is at three-day musical festival and second daughter defaulted to all black. So easy.

Booie, loving the Blank denim, think those might need to stay stateside.

Every day dress, spotted and Blank.

sleeveless spotted shell | many seasons ago | Gucci

black jeans | Blank NYC

black blazer | Worth New York

ps Loving this black blazer. So many fashion magazines are saying this season is all about the blazer, this one, from Worth New York Spring 2012 has it going on.

If you operate a little last-minute like we do here and are still wondering what to cook for a crowd this weekend, we love Ina. While Martha and Julia have inspired many a fine meal, it’s Ina we really have fun with.

Her recipes always work, can be easily multiplied, ingredients are accessible or can be easily substituted, and her whole aura seems to encourage dance parties in the kitchen while cooking.

Shown here are photos from last week late Friday night while prepping for Saturday’s annual birthday party for youngest daughter. We have a big party every year and just kind of cook for fifty never really knowing who’s showing. As she has grown, cotton candy, sno cones, and the bounce house have given way to smoked salmon dip, marinated organic grilled chicken breasts, green beans gremolata, lobster mac & cheese, roasted potatoes and caesar salad. Party started at 6 pm rather than 2pm, she is thirteen now, and we so danced the night away in the barn that we forgot all about cake.

Ina’s food is all about do it yourself. Thank you Barefoot Contessa for inspiring us all to eat well, have fun, and not take it all too seriously.

We love Ina. Wishing you all crazy great food this weekend.

Every day dress.

food inspired by Ina Garten | Barefoot Contessa

Super quick post: for the upcoming weekend every day dress will be wearing white, as much as possible. White linen, white denim, white shoes, whatever. Come Tuesday, the white will stay around, white jeans are a twelve month closet staple, and that uberfashionable French woman Carine Roitfeld wears white shoes any time of the year, but this weekend wearing white will for sure be the theme.

Gotta keep it easy, gotta go, so much to do, it is labor day, right?

Wishing everyone a weekend full of love, wearing white or not.

Outfit shown was what was worn last night out. That’s as much skin as you’ll see here, shoulders and back. Can’t quite understand why almost every single magazine at the grocery store shows women of all ages with their stomachs exposed. Like that’s a natural way to dress?

 scarf worn as halter | Hermès

white linen pants | Worth New York

Come September 1 and most women I know breathe a little differently. Maybe it’s that promise of a new season, maybe the kids are (finally) back to school, maybe the first or last has just started college, maybe it’s time to go back or revisit work. Maybe there’s been a marriage, or a baby, maybe it’s just that June July and August have come and gone, maybe it’s time to try something new.

If you’ve landed here and you are a natural connector, love great clothes and or want to make money, this is my deal: consider what are you doing in three days? Come September 1 could you think about starting and growing your own business with the support of a luxury fashion company that believes in all women? A position where you work from home while still balancing and breathing and doing all that we all do?

The work I do doesn’t save lives or the environment, plan for the future, or educate our people. The work I do makes the lives of those doing those things better, and easier. By dressing well and feeling good about how they look, women are able to meet the demands of their day while feeling confident and can offer their best work, whether it be cancer research, high finance, practicing law, caring for elderly parents, raising children, running corporations or running errands. It’s all important.

Professionally, if what you are doing in three days isn’t what you want to be doing, let me recruit you. Talk to me about how you can be part of a team  that is all about helping women to wear beautiful clothing while looking good and feeling great. Ask me how you can build your own wardrobe and start your own business. Imagine the possibility, imagine your potential.

What are you doing in three days? This September, why not something new? Email me here at rebecca@everydaydress.com, check out the company I adore at www.worthnewyork.com, or better yet, call me direct at 716-445-3033.

Every day dress. For all women.

 

Have been feeling a little post shy lately and have also been a little preoccupied. Sixth child and youngest daughter turned thirteen this past weekend, second daughter leaves for Spain in a few weeks, and second son moving to Boston MA to study I’m not sure what. Oldest daughter in town for barely 48 hours and oldest son starting third year of law school. Fifth child, daughter, she’s pretty easy, but still likes her time. Where are we going with this? Not really sure.

Anyways, we all need good clothes for all the running around we do. This combination, white shirt and black skirt gets taken up a notch by the skirt being leather and then right down with the white shirt being a tee. The skirt is so special with the chiffon pleats that it could have gone anywhere; black tie, cocktail, uptown. As we are every day dress, wear the good stuff all the time, pairing it with a low brow tee makes it easy for more casual times. Added from the closet a red quilted Chanel bag and Chanel sandals, sweet bows, both probably at least five years old, and white shirt and black skirt were good to go.

Post shy as in this blog is personality based, always sharing with you the up close and personal, not ever really sure it’s all that interesting. Intent is to inspire women around me to feel good in their skin and to wear their good clothes now. Yes, I know all about when I lose the ten pounds, when I start to exercise, when the job gets less stressful, when the kids go back to school. Feel good now, dress like it matters today.

Every day dress does white shirt, black skirt. Would love to see/hear your white shirt black skirt look. Always a classic.

Black Leather Pleated Skirt | Worth New York Fall 2013

Basic White Tee | Club Monaco

Bag and Sandals | kind of old | Chanel

ps. even though you might pay big time up front for Chanel shoes and bags, they last forever, can make anything at all look great, and guaranteed the women in your life, daughters perhaps, will always find a place for them, no problem.