Fashion friends, many of us might have the luxury of not having to get out of the shorts and t-shirts for the day and yes, that is a luxury, count myself in some of the days of the week. This post is for the 60% or so of us that might work from home or work all day at home.

Here is a look that is as easy as your favorite yoga pants and zipped sweatshirt, yet dressed. Shows some skin, not all of it, and that’s probably a good thing, but let’s everyone out there know, yes, you perhaps go to the gym.

Every day dress speaks with women all day long. Many women say they have no need for anything during the day beyond shorts and a tee, here we might disagree. Consider this: if we all ran around, our men included,  in shorts and a tee, or yoga pants and a zipped sweatshirt, what would we look like as a community? Probably not very impressive.

So, here, a look that won’t win any best dressed, yet dressed enough. Every day dress does a look as easy as shorts and a tee, and leaves the sneakers in the closet.

For two days in a row, have worn exactly the same outfit: black wide leg pants, navy silk blouse. Really loving the swagger of the full leg and high waist. Add a heel and you’ve got it going on. Totally worked for work and more.

Not sure why black and navy creates energy, really easy to do, especially after a long holiday weekend and nothing seems to fit or look right. Too much fun, back on track, hitting the gym Thursday and Friday, trainer on vacation.

When you’re stuck, not sure what to put on the body, try black and navy. Everyone has black trousers, pull a navy silk blouse. Try adding a soft neutral shoe when doing this combination summertime.

Black and navy again, needing things that are easy. Every day dress.

Marion Pant | Worth New York Fall 2013

Hoping everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend with family and friends. So much to be thankful for.

Thank you for reading and thank you for flexibility. During the last few days of downtime thought a lot about the blog, work, women, clothes, and life.

Thinking that the blog could focus on women having and wearing clothes they feel good and look great in. Wardrobe and closet essentials that move through all of life’s facets, up and down.

Work is essential, necessary, fundamental, challenging, and at it’s best flexible and moving. Work in many forms provides structure and definition, and a great counterpart to downtime, which seems to be essential too.

Women do many things and most of the time need to be dressed. Most women I know have a love for clothes. Even the far from clothes horse highly intelligent therapist said to me at one time, Rebecca, all women love clothes.

So here’s to life, and the ongoing edit. Believing that women having and wearing clothes they feel good and look great in is a very good thing. As for the jeans? Kind of liking the bootleg throwback after seasons of skinnies. 

Every day dress, for all of life’s facets.

Tangent: made strawberry jam this morning from local home-grown berries. Used to do that all the time in enormous batches when kids were young. Even picked the berries. The ongoing edit…

Silk Blouse | new | Zara

White Jeans | 7 years old | purchased and worn when twins turned sixteen

Belt | old, not sure when | Hèrmes

Sunglasses | new | Céline

Never really thought I would put those three words together but here goes; tory tribal ralph.

Starting with the footwear, bought the Tory Burch sandals probably three years ago on sale at Foot Candy in Sonoma, CA. Have had them stashed and bring them out every once in a while. Tribal pants? You know, want to wear pajamas, blog about no yoga pants, so here is the next best thing. Twenty year old daughter and twenty-three year old son give them the thumbs up, son says they are a little MC Hammer. Have to wear a heel, no flat sandal or totally a pajama look, and that’s not good.

Black Ralph tank? Ten years ago: Holt Renfrew, Toronto, Canada. Still remember the male sales clerk, thank you sir, love that tank.

Tory tribal ralph, an unusual combination but worked for today.

The love affair with real butter continues. And when it’s served with a sprinkling of salt on top, count me in. Peller Estates Winery and Restaurant, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, we love your style.

For yet another dinner out, no complaints, only the challenge of what to wear; it was jacketed white linen with heels. Back on the east coast and a blazer and heels felt right. Wanted to hit the middle note between conservative and a little sexy, jacket covered up, linen halter showed a little skin. While talking with younger friend about what we were wearing and what time for border crossing, told her I kind of wanted to wear pajamas but that just wouldn’t do. 🙂

This outfit felt completely right. There were six of us, one friend, ten years younger, wore spaghetti strapped sundress, the other, maybe eight years older, navy and white striped long-sleeved tee and white linen jacket. Thought we all looked pretty spot on.

Blogging about outfits and clothes does seem a little superficial at times, but having worked with women most of my life, first in the fitness world, for a few years at an independent girls school, and all along in fashion, women want to know how to get the look right and what to wear.

So here, every day dress. Move daily with intent so your body and mind work for you. Put on some good clothes and a little makeup, there seems to be an epidemic of dress down and not really sure where we go from here.

While having protein at breakfast and making dinner at night, we should all have a little salt on our butter.

Every day dress.

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From the state of New York to the people of Arizona, every day dress extends sincere sympathy with respect to the loss of your nineteen firemen. To all those experiencing loss, wishing you strength during the days ahead. May your men rest in peace.

 

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For gallery hopping, lunch, and then even dinner, while in Sedona, AZ, wore a strapless belted long silk dress and sandals.

Never really understood Capri pants. An ankle pant with a fabulous shoe? Yes, can go there. A Capri pant? Thank you, not happening.

Can’t quite get the appeal of cutting the leg into thirds. Especially when those legs might have curves? Curvy thirds is pretty hard to pull off. And then you have to add something different on top? Four of four daughters don’t even go there.

Yes, fashion is change and never say never. For now choosing the ease of a dress. Capri pants can wait.

Dress was purchased three years ago while traveling in Charleston, SC. Wore it constantly the first year, put it away for a while last year, and here it is again for a full day of gallery hopping and dining instead of Capri pants.

Fashion faux pas going on? Two oldest daughters would not like the exposed elastic holding the hair back. They would say to cover it, wrap a strand around it and tuck it in. Sorry girls, missed it.

Must be a reason I named this blog every day dress. Easy. Clean. Long.

Dress | Haute Hippie

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Spent four days and four nights in the White Mountains of Arizona at Hidden Meadow Ranch horseback riding with husband and two youngest daughters. Perfect in so many ways.

Blue jeans, boots, and long-sleeved shirts were what was worn during the day, at night we showered and changed for dinner in dressed up versions of the day wear.

Last night put on the same outfit that was worn as first night while in Scottsdale, only first night it was with a high-heeled open toe Manolo Blahnik sandal. Must admit by day four I was missing those things just a little, they would have been extremely out-of-place up in the woods.

Anyways, pulled on dark denim jeans and a chambray blue linen tunic. Thinking that the camel colored suede boots cut the look into thirds and that a longer color of column would have been better. No going back, when traveling you sometimes go with what you have for where you are.

Cuff bracelet was purchased at the ranch mercantile to serve as a souvenir. Kind of gave up on souvenir t-shirts a long time ago.

Every day dress dresses for dinner in what was worn before in Scottsdale for last night at the ranch. Next stop, Sedona, AZ.

PS. Linen can and does travel. Simply learn to embrace the soft wrinkles, kind of like those that appear on the face. 🙂

Dark Denim Jean and Linen Tunic | Worth New York Spring Summer 2013

Cuff Bracelet | Hidden Meadow Ranch Mercantile