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Fashion Friday: Business Casual

I am on a mission to replace my work wardrobe with dresses. Why? One, I just love dresses. Two, it doesn’t get any easier than pulling a dress over your head, adding a sweater or coat, then running out the…

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Fashion Friday: Ruby Red Dress

That red dress I wore to my parents’ anniversary—I would never wear that these days. I wore it in 2002 (wow, 10 years ago) to my grad school’s winter formal. It was lying around my parents’ house, to be given…

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Fashion Friday: Bye Bye Strapless

I used to love strapless dresses, but most of mine fall right off of me. I’ve spent hundreds of dollars trying to get them altered just right, but no one even comes close. The seamstresses measure, pin, tell me to…

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Fashion Friday: Dress Fit for a Princess

Two months ago, I blogged about how much I despised Kate Middleton’s wedding dress. I thought it made her look unnecessarily frumpy. It was the wedding of the future King of England and that’s what his bride chose? Oh dear….

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Welcome to my site, derived from an advice column I wrote while getting my MBA. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I give helpful, opinionated advice based on my own experience and from the expertise of my extensive network. For more, click here.

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