Comfortable cotton leggings have become a casual wardrobe staple for women over the last few years as a go-to bottom for weekend wear.  You can slip on your favorite pair of leggings with flip-flops and a T-shirt dress and be ready to run out the door.  I have about 10 pairs of black leggings that I love to wear as much ass possible!
I’ve always worn leggings as a casual separate, but new styles with sequins and shimmer look great for evening.  If you love the way leggings look on you, consider dressy leggings with a mini and heels for your …read more

I love Marchesa for their timeless, feminine evening wear. I can almost never afford their upper crust prices, but this Ideeli sample sale has prices that are up to 75% retail. The dresses are amazing, but they’re selling out fast. Like I was looking at four dresses this morning that are now totally sold out, so check it out soon.
This short strapless number has a fabulous swingy skirt that’s perfect for dancing the last days of summer away. Marked down to $269 from $1,050.
This black halter gown is old hollywood glamorous and totally runway ready. I love the lace and …read more

I know that for those of you in the heart of summer heatspells, it seems unlikely that fall will ever come. But come it will, and with it confusion about how to continue to wear your still new summer frocks without looking foolish. I love this cropped jacket as a great to way to warm up a cocktail dress, and just as a great way to warm up.
The short, open style is small enough to allow the details of a dress to show through, but substantial enough to provide a bit of warmth. I think it would look amazing with …read more

The evening wear on the Fall runways was every kind of metallic and glittery. I’ve already covered the more uniform fabrics in metallics, and glitters, but another thing that is really blowing me away is the way metallics have been used to create patterns.
Metallic printing and sequins have been combined in a way on this Pucci gown that makes the shimmery fabric look like it is falling in waves. The ornately embellished bodice is balanced out by the delicate simplicity of the chiffon skirt.
The metallic sequins on this Calvin Klein gown are clustered into an almost giraffe print pattern. When …read more

And some metallic shoes are completely & luciously (is that a word?) for evening wear:

This is the “Evanthia” by Sergio Rossi.