The snow has melted, the buds are on the trees, and the flooding state of emergency is in full force in Montreal. Yup, it must be spring. I’m actually in the midst of packing for a move this year. So I’m in wardrobe-purge mode more than in shopping mode, trying hard to limit the acquisition… Read More Spring into spring 2019
Pockets! They’re the rallying cry by women everywhere. An equality issue if there ever was one. For decades now, men’s clothing sported useful, spacious and functional pockets, enabling them to carry all their stuff with them, while we women have had to make do with handbags and purses because our clothes lacked this feature or… Read More The quest for pockets that function and flatter
I talked about my Canadian Black Friday purchases in Part 1 of this post. Now in Part 2, I’ll give a rundown of what I bought south of the border. For Canadian petites, for whom cross-border shopping is often a matter of necessity, not luxury, it can be the only time of year when prices… Read More In with the new: Black Friday 2017 Part 2
It’s that most wonderful time of the year: Holiday party time! As our calendars fill up with office parties, family parties, and New Year’s blowouts, I thought it was timely to do a post about petite-friendly holiday dress shopping. It can be tricky to find just the right holiday dress. You have to consider the… Read More Holiday dresses for petites
Ahhh, wrap dresses. Seemingly the best friend of every fashion blogger or advice columnist, and simultaneously the worst enemy of every woman who’s tried to put them into practice. Since the wrap dress was invented by designer Diane von Furstenberg in the 1970s, the wrap dress has inspired a love-it-or-hate-it controversy. More than four decades… Read More The faux-wrap dress
I was browsing at a retailer near my home today, and I found this absolutely adorable short-sleeved summer dress on the sale rack. Even though the fit wasn’t perfect, for the price, I couldn’t resist picking it up. There’s something a bit Asian-inspired about it, without it being over the top. And it’s a really… Read More The short-sleeved dress
The classic fit and flare dress is a great silhouette for petite pears like me. While many professional women are tempted to default to sheath dresses, they can be unflattering on those of us with shorter stature and larger hips. In contrast, the a-line of a fit-and-flare skims flatteringly over the hips, elongates the legs,… Read More The fit and flare dress