Color Me Orange

Not many people look good in orange. Well, maybe a baby in a pumpkin jumpsuit celebrating her first Halloween. Speaking of pumpkin, the color orange has many names and shades: tangerine, coral, poppy, persimmon,  chutney, apricot, carrot. (Hmm...this is starting to look like a fruit salad.)

Nevertheless, if you want to add color to your ensemble, orange accesories just might be the ticket: earrings, necklaces, bracelets, scarves, shoes, gloves, socks, purses, etc.

Just remember, wall-to-wall orange is not the way to go. Less is more.

Booting Up

It's time for boot shopping. For years I've had this cute pair of black, calf-high boots with a block heel that I wear in the fall and winter. They look cute with long skirts or knee length skirts, but now I'm ready to go up to the knee. And I'm definitely sticking with black because it goes with absolutely everything.

Depending on your personal style, you can choose shooties (combination shoe and boot), boots with stilletto heels, boots with buckles or trimmed with fur, boots with leather laces, slouch boots, cowboy boots or even Uggs. The possibilites are endless.

Gunn Laws

On Tim Gunn's page (Gunn Laws) of the September 2010 issue of Marie Claire, Tim talks about comfort. As always, he gets right to the point with no apologies. Something to think about. Here's the excerpt:

Some people think of dressing up or being polite as a burden. They think having to wear a tie or use the right fork or send a thank-you card is a kind of shackle. To these people I say: Getting out of bed is a shackle. If you feel that way, stay in it! Invest in a hospital gurney and wheel yourself around on it when you to go out. I get very impatient with this whole "comfort issue" with clothing. Yes, you don't feel as comfortable in clothes that fit as you do in your pajamas. That's a GOOD thing. You're navigating in a world where you need to have your wits about you. If you're in a lackadaisical comfort haze, you can't be engaged in the world the way you need to be.