The perfect button down shirt is a wardrobe must-have and a shopping damn-near-impossible-to-find. The trick is finding something that provides shape, fit and structure without gaping at the boobs.  Most button down shirts, in my experience, either gape at the boobs or hang straight down from your arm pits. The Madison Shirt from New York [...]

I was on the phone with my mom recently while I was shopping and mentioned to her that I was looking to pick up fashion tape. “What’s that?” she asked.  I teased her a little, but wasn’t really surprised.  Fashion tape isn’t something I learned about from my mother, who prefers barefeet to pretty shoes. [...]

I was contacted by the girls of Clever Girls Collective a few weeks before BlogHer09 and asked to be a “brand ambassador” for Yummie Tummie Shapewear while attended the conference. Basically, they were going to give me two free Yummie Tummies and asked me to talk about my experience with them. I agreed.  Mainly because [...]

If you read my personal blog, you might have noticed yesterday that I talked about some free jewelry I was getting to wear to the BlogHer conference this week. I didn’t get to pick it out myself, so I’ve been anxiously waiting to see what I was getting and whether or not it would actually [...]

A friend of mine recently mentioned that carrying a laptop through an airport is much easier with a laptop backpack, as opposed to a shoulder bag.  I’m headed for Chicago next week for the BlogHer conference and had kind of been dreading hauling my laptop around for four days. The laptop backpack seemed like the [...]

We’ve covered summer dresses and handled the problem of chafing. Now it’s time for my second favorite summer wardrobe item: Skirts. Look, I don’t like to cram my legs into denim if I can help it when it’s hot as hell outside, OK?  The next best thing to a one item outfit like a maxi [...]

I hate trends that require a total wardrobe overhaul. As a rule, I tend to avoid any fashion trend that means throwing out the contents of my closet and starting from scratch. One of my favorite trends right now is the rush towards “statement necklaces”. What the hell is a statement necklace? Simply, and redundantly, [...]

Finding a pair of jeans that fits perfectly is a daunting task for many women. If you’re a woman with a pear or hourglass shaped body, finding a pair of jeans that fits your waist and your hips can seem downright impossible. I used to consider myself an hourglass.  And then my boobs shriveled up, [...]

The rainy season has officially begun here in Florida.  I can tell because it has rained every single day for the last week and a half. All that precipitation has got me scouring the Internet for a new raincoat. I used to have this super cute cobalt blue raincoat.  And no, not when I was [...]

I am a late convert to the maxi dress trend. Maxi dresses were all the rage last summer and spring, but I always assumed that the super long length would be too much for my petite frame. This year maxi dresses are back and I have fully embraced maxi dresses for the summer. I encourage [...]