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Wouldn’t it be great to be one of those girls, maybe for five minutes or a day, the fashion bloggers that spend vacation weeks in Greece with a fabulous beach wardrobe, are twenty-six years old and kind of only really worry about what outfit they are wearing next, or totally connected financially, socially, and geographically?

Not happening here at every day dress, have lived here in upstate New York almost forty-eight years. Have had a love of fashion as long as I can remember, rode by bicycle at the age of eleven while parents were out to the neighborhood pharmacy to buy the most current issue of Vogue magazine, and have helped to dress other women since oldest daughter was born, twenty-three years ago.

After a full day of pulling weeds and moving very heavy furniture, chose earth tones to dress the tired body for a lovely dinner with husband and two youngest daughters out in town. Earth tones, really not the wardrobe usual, but loving this bandeau top for a hot summer night. Went with this color, Cinnamon, as like the shoemakers son dressed all the best clients in the first color choice, Carbon or Black, and now the earth tones are left, Cinnamon and Olive, and recently bought them both.

Yes, jeans are still tight, farmer girl at heart, and every day dress wears earth tones on a Saturday night out in the country.

Like the bandeau top? Email me here, rebecca@everydaydress.com, and will see what I can do. Earth tones, most likely.

Bandeau | Worth New York | Spring Summer 2013

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Making dinner and walking outdoors are two things that can make any good day better.

It’s been busy, full house this past weekend and every meal felt like a party. For Wednesday night send-off for Boston College daughter chicken fajitas and spanish rice for six required practically every pan in the kitchen. Dinner for six was the smallest party since last week Thursday.

To keep from going over the edge, getting outdoors, out of the office  and out of the kitchen for a long walk refuels the mind and body for whatever comes up next.

Food and fitness, keep it coming.

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For a busy day look chose a longer length black skirt, side ruched tee, and lug soled sandals instead of the requisite black jeans or black pants.

Super easy, yes, it’s mostly black, but it’s a skirt and the longer length made it feel different. Feeling like the skinny jeans have been getting way too much play.

Next, instead of black, will definitely have to move towards another neutral, maybe white.

Every day dress does a longer length black skirt instead of black skinnies. Felt good, and different.

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While we love looking at all the online shopping sites and fashion blogs that have maybe eleven brand new essential pieces to pack for the beach, the city, or the country, this here is every day dress and some days we are happy to get a hot shower. New clothes are great, for sure, there is also so much else going on out there that it’s not always practical to buy and pack an entire new wardrobe for a few days away.

Here’s the one new sweater: wore this for traveling out to the country on Saturday, put it on with the yoga pants for Sunday morning coffee outside on the deck, wore it over the bikini poolside when some coverage was needed for drop by brother-in-laws. Put it back on late Monday, back to the city we go, and with one new sweater for this past weekend away, we were every day dressed. Mixed the one new sweater in with all the other wardrobe pieces collected over the years.

Every day dress loves being inspired by all that’s new out there, thank you, also loves having one new sweater to get away from it all in.

Hope everyone out there had a great holiday weekend.

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When dinner in the country for ten turns into dinner for twenty plus, go with it. Nothing better than serving our country’s future home cooked food.

Have on hand an extra-long picnic table plus one, always have room for extra, half a dozen machine washable table cloths and to be certain at least three dozen cloth napkins. Stacks of flatware, plates, canning jars for fresh-cut whatever, and plenty of glassware goes without saying.

A little busy and hectic up front, it’s fun to cook and serve home made-mac and cheese, pasta broccoli, green beans, roasted potatoes, tossed green salad, rib eye, tenderloin, chicken, chocolate chip cookies, fudge marble cake and ice cream? When you have generations for Memorial Day weekend or even any day in particular, go for it, put out the dog even in the most casual way, and watch your dinner guests enjoy themselves and the company of all those around them. So worth it.

Every day dress wishes everyone out there the confidence to cook home cooked food for dozens, to extend an extra invitation when not always certain, and to go for it in general.

Ten plus ten. Cook it and they will come.

Happy Memorial Day all family and friends.

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White jeans, always a basic, and dressed up fitted long-sleeved navy tee, didn’t take long to get dressed for dinner out with the big group. Added last year’s sandals and a bright red bag, Memorial Day weekend after all, and to keep it just a little off put a soft butter yellow leather jacket over it all. Kind of like when things aren’t always perfectly matched up, keeps it more interesting.

New distressed jeans from last post? Already gone. That didn’t take long either. Second daughter claims she doesn’t have any jeans, really, and needed them for her night out.

Good thing the feeling for the weekend is not always perfectly matched up, keeps things more interesting for sure.

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For many women, work from home is a great thing. This post is for dear friend and new work from home colleague, Lori Stevenson.

The necklace worn in Saturday’s white on white post? By Lori. The Buddha necklace? Lori, too. Each necklace is custom-made from her carefully selected collection of gemstones, pearls, rondelles and vintage brooches. Her work from home business is fairly new and her website just launched last week Thursday. Love the two pieces I bought, received compliments from the tailor today, and he knows good things. Every day dress wishes you abundant success. Lori’s beautiful and one of a kind works can be seen here, Lori StevensonJewelry.com.

Work from home clothes? Yes, when you work from home it could be quite easy to slip into the yoga pant habit. No way. Black cotton blouse with a collar, gray skinny jeans, real shoes or boots, and a quick run with the flat-iron and five minutes of makeup so elevates the work from home default of black yoga pants. Lori, your work is beautiful and I love how a single piece compliments a simple column of color. Finishes a look fast and helps make me feel dressed. So easy. Thank you.

Work from home, a great thing. Lori, congratulations on finding your niche and best wishes always. Couldn’t be happier for you. xoxo

Necklaces | Lori Stevenson

Every day dress wishes all women work success.