Second Run: A Friendly Announcement

Just as pertinent as it was last year. Find your neighborhood DC pool here. Happy Memorial Day weekend!

How To Wear A Trench

The trench featured here is my always-right, always-perfect number from London Fog. Craving other how-to’s? Here’s how to wear a jean jacket, how to wear a scarf, how to wear a button up, how to...

Opening of the Ballet Russes

On Wednesday, I had the privilege of attending the opening reception of the Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes exhibit at the National Gallery of Art. PLEASE. Do yourself a favor and get to Washington...

Year Three

Sometimes it’s hard to express how much My Closet in Sketches means to me without sounding redundant. There are so many tangible ways that this website has affected my life, but what’s more...

Birthday Post

One particularly notable occurrence since my last birthday, as you know, is that I have my own studio- which has essentially banished all my pencil skirts and heels to live full-time in my closet...

How To Get The Fattest Lashes

Why don’t you combine this lash tutorial with some of my other makeup how to’s? Here’s how to do the “Hi, Put Money In My Tip Jar” eye, here’s how to do A Standard Five Minute Face, here’s how to...

Second Run: Trophy Wife

I’m currently working on some pretty significant, intense projects – so right now it feels nice to go back to the basics, when I spent every evening after work trying on clothes, making outfits,...

How To Wear A Jean Jacket

Every gal should own the perfect jean jacket – I found mine on sale at Urban Outfitters when I was a junior in high school, and I’ve never looked back. That animal print belt is from J.Crew and was...

Modern Redux

I wore a J.Crew boiled wool sweater, an H&M cotton peplum top, silk trousers pilfered from Grandma’s closet (previously featured here when I wore them on a date), my all-time-dig alligator clutch,...

Overtime

I went with laces like these. It may be said that these Bass boots are the best way to explore the archives of My Closet in Sketches. Check it: I wore them in, -Lucky Strike -Working Girl -School...

The Corrections

If you follow me on Instagram, you may have noticed there’s been a recent addition to my DC life – my brother, Alex, just moved to town. He’s basically the coolest and I love living with him. As...

How To Have Swagger

I saw this quote in last Sunday’s New York Times. On point. Playing up the swag, I dressed down my Rag & Bone leather tuxedo jacket and a white and black silk tuxedo pencil skirt I picked up at the...

Cabled Yards

Second Run: My Toolkit

I recently received a lot of questions about what materials I use to sketch. This toolkit is a second run of this original drawing posted almost two years ago… gee, time sure flies when you’re...

The Way I See It…

I took some liberties on the pronouns of this Hardy Amies quote – but I do believe my new-ish frames from (former employer) SEE Eyewear do an excellent job of illustrating this credo on my face....

How To Wear A Button Up

It was just a matter of time before I did a How To featuring my favorite article of clothing… in general, I prefer to lift button ups off of my dad or brother and then wear them to death. The star...

Grindin

How do I love thee, leather jacket? Let me count the ways.

My Studio In Sketches

Big BIG Girl Pants

Seriously, a year ago, I posted this. Also, seriously, thank you to everyone who is reading this: you have been a part of something that has given me the ability to be able to live out my dreams. A...

How To Wear Your Scarf

My mom found this 36inch X 36inch leopard print scarf at Target – however, a scrap of any old thing will do. I’m aiming for the whole outfit when it comes to ways to wear your tee and how to wear...

NY Day 4: The Big Guns

The Prada shoes, as we can see, were clearly the MVP‘s of the trip. Oh yeah, and I saw these dresses in person – they’re even more stunning than they were in my imagination.

New School

Besides the all-important jersey? I FINALLY found the short version of this skirt while browsing at Secondi this summer – it was originally from H&M (SCORE). And of course, the ever present denim...

NY Day 2: Blue Light Special

Funny to compare this FABB outfit to last year’s…

NY Day 1: Party in the Valley

This dress was such a great investment. Those shoes were such a great investment.

Boss.

I hope I never lose the bright-eyed, bushy-tailed wonder I felt last year. Here’s my account of day one, two and three of New York Fashion week 365 days ago…

A Fashion Night Out Invite…

(It never fails to blow my mind, the opportunities that have come this way.) On the evening of Thursday, September 6th, I will be at the Philosophy di Alberta Ferretti store for New York’s Fashion...

Second Run: Lake Effect

Peeps, my apologies for the semi-total-radio-silence.I’ve been making an effort to enjoy my summer to its fruitful fullest, which translates to a lot less time at the drawing board. With my passion...

Mind Games

I like to keep things extremely simple and extremely streamlined when rocking the high-waisted, almost-booty shorts (of which I obviously bought two pairs, denim and white). On the left is a J.Crew...

No Bail

That’s my mom’s old tee, which she bought at the Symposium on Humanity in 1979 and says “God Bless Detroit” (Check out this vintage sketch of it, shoo). The skirt I bought on modcloth.com (and it’s...

Mrs. Fire Doubt

As for the ensemble that still managed to get wet: I tied a cotton button up shirt from H & M (pilfered from mom’s closet) over a Lands’ End Canvas cotton sailboat print dress (last seen here), and...