I like my jeans to hit around my ankle or just above so I can wear flat sandals, mules or cute non-athletic sneakers (especially in the spring/summer months). I like Paige jeans (they have petite styles and also some regular styles that come in different lengths). I have a couple of pairs of Mother jeans, but their sizes are all over the place. I also have some petite jeans & pants in the Anthropologie brands. If I buy non-legging bottoms from Athleta, I’ll get the petite. I’m also being influenced to try the Aritzia Lodge pants, but the “short” length is sold out in the colors I would buy (even in the short length, these will kiss the floor on me). I am 5’5”, ideally a 26” or 27” ankle length is what I look for. I don’t like my legs to be swallowed by pants/jeans and I don’t like them to drag on the floor. Maybe if I wore heels, it would work.
I bought this on sale a few months ago in an ivory/off-white color but haven’t worn it yet.
College nerd, rather incredible but I wear Paige jeans, anthropology pants (which they order for me in the store), aritzia pants, and just a few Athletica and one Lulu. I’m 5’0” now, having lost 2 inches.
I follow a FB group for petites. Jean wang especially. I also find that I can do best in skirts and mini dresses.
I have the cream and wear it a lot. The color of the taupe is my favorite neutral. I’ve searched and no other taupe is so good.
My daughter told me Anthropologie is having a sale but you have to spend minimum of $150.00.
Interesting. My most worn items are black jeans (NYDJ and GV Amanda) - I’d take them. And some of my favorite shoes/boots. Also I’d take a lovely wool zip up sweater my husband got me for Christmas one year. And this jacket he helped me pick out, from same local boutique with ethically sourced “slow fashion”
My Lululemon Black Run For Cold Jacket that I bought in 2016. $200 seemed like a splurge for a running jacket but 10 years later (and one zipper replacement), it’s going strong. It’s lightweight, but warm, works for casual wear and packs small. It has traveled to many places and attended the DC Women’s March in 2017. I have worn it as recently as this morning.
I have a Patagonia full zip fleece with zip hand pockets & a hood that has served me well and is multipurpose. I’d take it and often do. I’d take a pair of comfortable black walking shoes — always good to have (the Hokas I just bought that have goretex), a wool tank top because they’re so versatile and my emerald green & black flannel shirt because it’s so comfortable. I have a long Laura Ashley navy jersey skirt I’ve had a long time that I’d likely take—never wrinkles and packs very small.
I’ve been absent, but back now! Vineyard Chic, for crying out loud. Let’s confuse the guests. I see this as sundresses, and casual pants and collared shirts for men. Jazz it up with a blazer. No tie. I’d take the tie and if you see people wearing them, the it on.
I love and wear my Quince cashmere sweaters a lot (multiple colors), but if I had to grab something and run, it would probably by my black Sezane cardigan or my vuori joggers (so soft!).
In a world of crazy, depressing news… I do love distraction fashion articles! Don’t miss Heidi Klum, the - “celebrity who took the “Fashion Is Art” theme most to heart, dressing as a marble statue.”
“Dear Miss Manners: My wife and I are at the age where we are receiving invitations for our friends’ children’s weddings and graduation parties.
I am looking at a high school graduation party invitation that states: “Formal Sunset White Attire.” We received wedding invitations that stated “Semi-Formal Cowboy Chic” and another requesting “all black” — for an August destination wedding on a beach in Florida.
If we do not own the requested attire and have no plans to purchase a one-time outfit for the event, is the polite thing to do to just send the gift we were planning on giving and decline the invitation? We don’t want to appear out of place or ruin their themed photographs. When the invitations state “formal,” “semi-formal” or “casual,” those give us many options that are already in our closets and don’t require shopping.
You realize that you are being invited to be extras at filmed costume parties — only without assistance from the wardrobe department.
In more decorous times, Miss Manners might have said that your having been invited meant that your actual presence was more important than your background appearance, and she would have thought that you would be welcome in clothes that simply observed the importance of the occasion. That is, suits and dresses. But she can no longer trust that. What seems to matter most now is the appearance on social media.
Sadly, she now agrees that you should send that present you were planning to give anyway, along with your good wishes, and decline showing up to participate in the video.”
Excerpt From
“Column | Miss Manners: Skipping events with a baffling new dress code”
Judith Martin, Nicholas Martin, Jacobina Martin
The Washington Post
I can see how specific color requests might be burdensome. But for many of the various named themes, methinks one could show up with any nice semi-formal dress and be OK.
We recently went to a wedding. A Sunday brunch wedding in fact. No dress code. It was amazing that everyone there managed to be appropriately dressed for the occasion. Who knew?
