April 19, 2024 Blue Skies, Smiling at Me… She’s finally feeling a change in the weather, internally and outdoors! And she’s making a small but meaningful (to her) change in her wardrobe, to celebrate her newfound optimism. First, she treats herself to a beautiful set of bracelets: bracelets – Fierce Lynx Designs   For years, she’s always dressed for summer in a simple mix of beige and white… This year, she’s adding a dash of blue-green to match her eyes and the brighter lights in her heart. bracelets – Fierce Lynx Designs She quite likes her core summer wardrobe – it’s light, and so e ..read more

April 17, 2024 My Mother’s 90th birthday! It’s something that fascinates me – people who know themself so well that everything about them seems to be made for them. You can’t imagine them dressed differently. You know that their home is perfect for them, as is their car, and the books that the read, and the music that they love. “Know thyself.” Is there harder advice? When we’re buffeted by advertising and entertainment that encourages us to try new and different EVERYTHING all the time (got to keep the economy churning, you know), being loyal to your personal style is far from simple… Enter E ..read more

April 15, 2024 So once you’ve studied the Pantone Colors from London Fashion Week, (found here and here), you have to decide if you like the colors, if you would be flattered by wearing any of them, and how they might look with the neutral clothes you normally wear. I can’t answer the first two questions for you – obviously – but I can give you some visuals to help you picture how the accent colors might work with your existing wardrobe… I’ve assembled four “core wardrobes” in white, black, beige and navy, in varying degrees of dressiness. The level of dressiness is going to be more important ..read more

April 12, 2024 It’s always interesting to me how difficult it is to find some of these colors! One would imagine that a reasonable range of ALL colors should be available, given the literally hundreds of thousands of products I see… Let’s jump in and evaluate what I DID find! The next color on Pantone’s list was the beautiful Sun Orange… It wasn’t terribly hard to find things, except a scarf that was mostly orange. So I decided that I would share with you this really pretty, bright, versatile and cheery scarf from Echo, which includes the orange and a bunch of other summery colors: don’t you l ..read more

April 10, 2024 “New” Colors! Or at least we can say “colors that have been identified as being influential for this spring…” I’m going to confess right now – I’m in a complete muddle about WHICH of the many Pantone seasons I have and have not covered, and further, I’m not 100% sure that this is the most recent! Neither of these facts is really a big deal, when you get right down to it; the big thing to learn from posts like this is to give yourself some room and some time to consider if a new color in your wardrobe might be fun. Or might be super-useful. Or might make you happy. Happy is reall ..read more

April 8, 2024 A new scarf! And a stunning one… scarf – Echo One certainly could include the vivid red and gold in a color palette too, if one was inclined… but I’m going to focus on the beautiful blue: scarf – Echo Today’s heroine is quite committed to wearing black and white, and ONLY black and white. It’s her thing, and it makes it possible for her to buy the very nicest clothes she can afford. Also, it opens the door for her to own all kinds of accessory families, in all kinds of colors. Imagine gold, silver, bright red, soft pink… So she’s planning outfits for a summer trip around ..read more

April 1, 2024 I’m going to start on the “Six Paintings – 12 Months” wardrobes on Wednesday; it may take me three posts to get them all done! Today, our heroine is going to the beach for the weekend. You might be surprised, if you don’t live near a big lake or the ocean, how many people head out 3 out of 4 weekends to hang out beside some water… Our heroine saw this scarf and knew immediately that this was going to be a favorite: scarf – Echo Black and white are always her core neutrals, but this summer she’s looking for accents in green and pink! Scarf – Echo yes, she could certainly use b ..read more

March 29, 2024 She’s pretty happy… she needs an entirely new warm weather wardrobe! And she’s starting with this as her inspiration: bracelets – Fierce Lynx Designs She knew all along that she wanted navy and bone to be her neutrals, and when she saw these bracelets, she realized that orange would be an AMAZING accent color…. You don’t see it every day! bracelets – Fierce Lynx Designs She’s a sensible woman – she started with her neutral colors, making certain that she included shorts, a pair of pants, and a skirt… Striped polo – L.L.Bean; hoop earrings – Luv AJ; navy striped linen shirt ..read more

March 27, 2024 It was love at first sight, for the scarf… scarf – Echo And it had been love at first sight for her when she saw her sweetheart, too… scarf – Echo Over breakfast… “I learned the oddest thing the other day…” she’s still a little bit sleepy… “What was that?” “Remember that weird guy at the beach bar – the one we liked so much? Well, he’s qualified to officiate over weddings!” she’s gobsmacked that this guy is qualified to do much of anything except tell amazing stories, and make time fly because he’s so entertaining… “Well, I wasn’t expecting THAT…” “Why don’t we run up this w ..read more

March 25, 2024 Sometimes, something is just cheerful… scarf – Echo She’s going away for a long weekend for a VERY happy occasion; she knows that she will want to wear her favorite bright accents, so she starts with her new favorite scarf! scarf – Echo As with so many trips we take to attend an event, we’re never quite sure what we should wear! But if we travel with love and a good heart, everything will work out… Our heroine likes to wear navy with her bright accents, so her travel outfit falls into place with a bit of fun and a great deal of comfort: Rose violet cardigan – Boden; ea ..read more