Since 2005, Wardrobe Oxygen has been providing fashion advice. Focusing on real-life style for grown-ass women, Alison Gary shares her personal style, reviews of brands and garments, denim hauls, and resources on where to shop for petite fashion over size 10, plus size fashion, bras for large busts, wide width shoes as well as how to style footwear trends, and sustainable style.
Known for its real-life capsule wardrobes that offer inclusive sizing, Wardrobe Oxygen helps you feel stylish, as well as yourself. Work (or work from home), weekend, vacation, and special events, Wardrobe Oxygen is a style destination for women over 40 living on their own terms.
Two conversations this weekend led me to the same conclusion – most clothing made for women over a size 14 is CRAP. Why do plus-size designers believe that anyone who wears their clothes are the size of a typical size 8, just stretched in every direction? Not all size 18 women are 6’ tall with… Continue Reading Fight for Your Right to be Fashionable!
Age is but a number. Really people, it is. It’s not a euphemism that allows adults to wear Care Bear shirts and skip across the parking lot to Starbucks, but it isn’t a steadfast bar where you have to adjust your life to fit it. I spent my lunch in Borders, pouring over fashion magazines… Continue Reading Age is But a Number
Gosh, all these new visitors to my blog (hello you 5,000+ people) and I look like crap. Murphy’s Law, huh? Glad I have been working on my skin (that’s a future post). Navy stretchy cotton v-neck sweater from Banana Republic, olive ripstop cotton cargo skirt from J. Crew, black leather thong heels from Mossimo, silver… Continue Reading Wednesday
This post is inspired by a woman who is a member of a message board I visit. She mentioned that she is taking a trip this fall and was hoping to be a certain size before the trip so she could pack differently. All too often, we women hold off on situations, trips, life changes,… Continue Reading Loving Yourself, AKA How to Spend Your Summer Vacation
You can monogram your bikini bottom at J. Crew. Did you know that? I find this utterly adorable and do love the simple, we—made suits this company provides. Too cute! I want a bright green one with my monogram in orange. J. Crew has been doing monograms for a long time, but not until the… Continue Reading What I am Loving Right Now…
Hello all. A reader emailed me yesterday about undergarments. She feels that she can never find the right ones – underwear either leaves the dreaded VPL (visible panty line), is ugly, or it is uncomfortable. Like her, I have found that boyshorts often ride down during the day or ride up cutting one’s bum in… Continue Reading Reader Survey
Lands End almost never goes on sale. There are never promos for a percentage off if you spend a certain amount, there aren’t outlet stores in every strip mall across the country, they usually carry simple basics at standard, reasonable prices season after season. Well they are having a sale. Why am I telling you… Continue Reading Great Deal – Lands Ends
For this month, bring your gently used career wear to any nearby Zips Dry Cleaning location, and they will donate it to Suited to Succeed, a non-profit that assists women in transition from training programs and unemployment to self-sufficiency by providing free professional clothing and workshops. We all have some random suits and dresses in… Continue Reading Attention Washington DC Area Women…
My sister forwarded me this article from The Washington Post. Yet another article by Robin Givhan that I love… wanted to share with all of you as well. A First Lady’s Natural BeautyIn Place of Dazzle, a Taste for the Simply Pleasing By Robin GivhanWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, July 13, 2007; C01 The fashion industry… Continue Reading Remembering Lady Bird…