Sure, life is a blur and we always seem to do it again. Black dress, leather jacket, good shoes, happy days.
Whatever it is, goes on and on.
Every day dress, do it again.
off duty travel
Seems the more you go, the less you need, especially off duty. For west coast on the go trip, essentials included:
Cashmere wrap and silk scarf, blue jeans and white jeans, denim skirt, black blazer and black workout jacket, black boatneck sweater, white shorts and black exercise pants, tanks and tees, mostly on the black side, one pair of sandals, two pairs of sneakers but really only needed one, one pair of black boots. One bright handbag, and most important, handsome husband and two teenaged daughters.
Started in LA and drove up the coast and flew out of San Francisco. Temperatures ranged from 102 to below 60. Really into this carry on thing and keeping it light. Such a drag to haul so much stuff all over.
For off duty travel, cashmere, denim,white, and black. Easy.
Now it’s all on duty for Fall 14 Trunk Show. Starts tomorrow, Wednesday, and goes through next week Wednesday, August 13th.
You can do it. With the right stuff off duty travel for seven or eight days with only a carry-on is so possible.
Every day dress, off duty travel.
on four letter words
When the mood strikes and usually among the same blood line, we here at every day dress can throw down four letter words with the best of them. You won’t see them digitally, in print, and hopefully never hear them at the dinner table.
That said, there are some four letter words we just love and use regularly: food, real and good food; and wine, usually good wine and often enough fine wine. Butter counts too as we kind of weirdly believe that butter is love.
A couple four letter words it’s taken us about 49 years to get over: diet, lose. Those have occupied way too much head space and have never gotten us to any good place. Still get sucked in, loving fashion and great clothes always makes you want to be thinner, those two words just always lead down the wrong path. While clothes invariable look better on stick thin women, it’s so much more fun to embrace lifestyle too and know that undressed women perhaps look and feel better with a few well deserved curves.
As recently as 18 months ago 35-year-old male trainer that put me through really heavy weight training workouts knew my desperation with always wanting to drop 10 pounds or so. He recommended the banana diet. Yes, 30 freaking bananas a day. Being a believer in all things actually tried it for about an hour and a half on a cold winter day while out skiing with the family. Result? Disaster and four letter words, not the good ones like real food and good wine, but the rough ones hurled out at two teenaged daughters when getting on the chair lift on a crisp beautiful morning was more complicated than usual. Way to set a good example. Those four letter words were so not right and were set up by some unrealistic diet plan. That banana thing I think was the turning point. Never again. Took that chair lift up, skied down the mountain, and fueled the body with what it needed and one of the paradigms of every day dress: eat some protein at breakfast.
Fashion and fitness magazines always have ways for us lose, diet, or move ourselves down a couple of dress sizes and they always promise it will happen fast. Now even the really good ones like Town & Country and Harper’s Bazaar have entered the email feed with ways to lose. While obesity is a huge health problem in our country and heartbreaking to see in children, that’s an entirely different conversation than what you’ll find here. We’re talking about moving our bodies as much as we can, walking over driving, stairs over anything that requires power to get you up or down, and knowing that life is abundant and setting yourself up with wishful restrictions is not much fun.
Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food is a slim book that’s kept on the nightstand to circle back to when the pull to believe in some magical diet plan or how to lose weight fast comes calling again as it does and will. His premise is sound: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Every day dress on four letter words, yes, sometimes it’s just the best way to express yourself, and usually only among intimates. On our favorite four letter words, food and wine? Yes, and often, and probably for both like Mr. Pollan says, not too much. 🙂
Still in CA, heading back east tomorrow, Sunday, and jumping right back into helping women look and feel great with beautiful clothing. Trunk Show August 6th through August 13th.
Wishing everyone a great weekend with some good, real food. And, if you like, some good wine too.
a rebel again
When something works, let’s do it again. Clients sometimes say to me I’m not adding one more thing to my wardrobe that’s black. And you know what? We usually end up adding more black, or navy, or any other neutral they think they might be tired of. Updating your wardrobe with fresh pieces of what’s come and worked before can help keep the good mood and positive feeling going.
We’ve been traveling the CA coastline. Yesterday bought two things: yet another pair of white jeans and a new Canon EOS Rebel SL1 camera. The white jeans are a total wardrobe staple and will keep going into the fall. Always great to have a fresh pair and these are a slim boyfriend cut. The camera? The trusty old Rebel just decided it was time to quit. Just could not get that shutter to work consistently and after doing due diligence and even consulting the camera experts, took the plunge and bought a new one. Camera expert and I agreed that staying with what worked before, the Rebel, and simply updating, life would be easier, quicker, and better looking.
A good outfit, with many of the elements remaining the same, fresh white jeans, black sweater, silk scarf, bright bag, and walkable boots, is much like a good camera. Dependable and consistent results, until we need to do it again.
Every day dress, a rebel again.
sometimes a collar
It’s summertime and the living is easy. Spontaneous invites crop up, and we all like to live and dress casual. Sometimes a collar says we’re so happy to be here and so happy for the invite.
Writing this post from central CA while the photos were taken in upstate New York. Totally camera and tech and internet challenged here so kind of have to rely on some of the old stuff. Fourth daughter says mom theres’ no way you can blog from in iPhone but now that’s the only game in town. Casual here, casual back east. Wherever you may be, sometimes a collar makes you look dressed.
Here at every day dress we’re delighted when we’re served. Steaks on the grill or peanut butter and jelly, we are happy, thank you.
Last pop-up invite wore a striped collared shirt with same day blue jeans. Other guests said ‘my, you like nice’.
Every day dress, sometimes a collar.
stay true
Like most women towards the end of July, days can be filled with travel, family, family, and travel. Schedules are hard to nail down, and usually time is not our own, and the place you land at the end of the day is probably not either.
All great and wonderful stuff. One way to keep it feeling good is by staying true to what makes you work for yourself and others.
NYC was Wednesday and Thursday. Family wedding with kids and dates and overnight guests on Friday. First flight out to LAX Saturday morning. Hollywood CA Saturday and Sunday, oh boy. Now were in Santa Barbara and this guy just doesn’t sit still.
To keep carrying on gym workout first thing at the W hotel did the trick.
Love my man, love my family, love my life. Stay true to what makes you work for yourself and those you hold close.
Every day dress, stay true.
travel
Sometimes it’s that what we find challenging is that what makes us really grow. Life and work have picked up the travel calendar, six kids, almost can’t call them kids anymore, the four of them in big cities are really young adults, a husband that is restless, and growing a fashion business can kind make you be on the move.
Travel? Once you get there all is good. It’s the getting ready and getting out of dodge that’s the big work.
Woke up Tuesday morning out in the country and really didn’t want to go anywhere at all. Got the virtual office thing down but when you’re wanted at the home base for laundry and dinner detail and then the next morning in NYC for work stuff you’ve just got to move.
Put off the details by cooking sauce and meatballs the hottest day of all July. Then packed it in the car with the dogs and the gear to serve it up later. Somehow making dinner for the family makes everything else feel okay. You know that procrastination thing? Anything but the hard stuff and the hard stuff here was packing and going.
Did the dinner thing, went to bed, set the alarm, 3 am, got up and got out of dodge.
Here’s the fashion details: white denim all the way, corporate trip yes but it is July. White denim dress for travel out on Wednesday with a black jacket. White denim jeans with kind of sexy black silk blouse for dinner Wednesday night, no photo, don’t we all dress for dinner? And white denim skirt and silk blouse and cashmere wrap for office meetings the next day it’s always cold when they crank the air conditioning.
Handbag above not really relevant to this post but thinking it is really gorgeous. 🙂
Shoes were black. Black Aquazurra for travel, you can really walk anywhere in those and black low heeled boots for dinner out. Have resolved that any shoe that is worn or packed when traveling needs to be able to move in.
Eden, Buffalo, NYC. Next up, Saturday LAX.
Every day dress, travel. What we find challenging is really what makes us grow.
accessories and dinner
Shameless self-promotion post: selfie of accessories during Fall Trunk Show. Dress is seasons old, belt and fur tried on from the new collection.
When at home always LOVE a good apron. 🙂 This belt looks great while being useful. Stashed the iPhone in the right zip pocket, plugged in the head-set, and there you go, hands free talking forever.
Popped the fur on, and while fur isn’t for everyone, this one has stretch, can you imagine fur with stretch? Genius.
Maybe wouldn’t wear them both at the same time, but maybe might.
Worked off-site all day. Moms with older kids know this, moms with younger kids probably can’t yet imagine it: when you cook for others eventually they cook for you.
Second son made dinner tonight, soup to nuts, happy day.
Every day dress, accessories and dinner.
denim and linen
Since the age of about seven have had a love affair with denim. It’s got to be the quintessential American fabric.
Linen, in the summertime, is quintessential, as well.
Paired together, denim and linen, and you’ve got an easy and workable summertime look. Denim skirt and linen shirt, both in dark indigo. Skip the camisole underneath, its way too hot and instead do a lacy black bra, La Perla we like, and you’re good to go.
Fashion note: while it’s fun to show a little lacy black bra underneath a sheer top, showing a white garment tag is not. Missed that, photos of your backside reveal details. White garment tag will be carefully snipped out.
Denim and linen, dressed up a little in an asymmetric skirt shape and dressed down in an easy linen shirt. Every day dress, on the streets of Boston MA, summertime 2014.
For a First Look at Fall, meet me at The Buffalo Club, Tuesday, July 15th through Friday, July 18th. Call text or email for your personal consultation. Personalized fashion for your distinct look and lifestyle is the best.
Rebecca | 716-445-3033| rcollins@worthnewyork.com.
Denim Skirt Linen Blouse | Worth New York
Sandal | Valentino
Bag | Louis Vuitton
new hampshire for the weekend
So much fun to fly away and then road trip for the weekend. Thought we needed some face time with two daughters living in Boston MA. Flew in late Friday afternoon, they picked us up, off we went, six of us, for some rest and relaxation, to Wentworth by the Sea Hotel and Spa.
The public and private gardens in New Castle NH were beautiful. Made me think briefly about what I do all day long in upstate New York, perhaps there’s more digging to be done. 🙂 Didn’t take many photos, only had the iPhone, and we were busy. 🙂
Wore this new pant shape, one of four daughters gave it the thumbs up. The oldest, she thought they were great, the three others not so much. Some things take time, right?
Back to work tomorrow, Monday, with the Fall line and thinking this shape will be big. So many women love something new, why not luxurious leather culottes to kick off a new season?
New Hampshire for the weekend, leather in upstate New York for the week ahead. You’ll find us at The Buffalo Club, Tuesday, July 14th through Friday, July 18th. Call text email, Rebecca, 716-445-3033, rcollins@worthnewyork.com.