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.
Dear Allie: I don’t have an unlimited budget for clothes. Where can I get some cheap closet staples? I need to do a closet redo STAT! Allie, I follow My Wardrobe Today but there is no way I can afford places like Ann Taylor and Nordstrom. How do you afford those places, and do you…
Hi Allie, I know you recently went to the Bonnaroo Music Festival in the US. I am going to the Oxegen Festival. I was wondering what you suggest I wear to it? Dear Allie, Are you going to Bonnaroo again this year? I am going too! What do you suggest I pack? Dear Allie: My…
I have received so many emails recently asking for fashion advice. I figured I would share the questions and responses with you readers – what helps one may help many! Dear Allie: I have found my figure looks great in simple sheath dresses and I recently realized I have a good 8-10 of these in…
Everyone is getting on the Amazon bandwagon and I couldn’t be more thrilled about it. Everywhere I look, another online retailer is offering customers to rate and/or review previous purchases. The trouble with shopping online is that you can’t touch, feel, or try on your item before purchase. Even with easy (and sometimes free – hello Zappos!)…
The cheap Mardi Gras beads aren’t good enough for my Emerson – she needs to raid my jewelry armoire. Sorry I have been MIA – got back from Bonnaroo very late last Monday and since then I was sick, then Emerson was sick, and now my husband is sick. Will be back to blogging quite…
I am a huge fan of shopping online. Many women hate it because you can’t try before you buy, but I love it because it helps me keep on track. Lately I have been shopping in stores to find proper clothes for my upcoming vacation. It will be hot so I am trying to find…
I think the best fashion trend over the past decade or so has been the freedom to not match. I am not saying mixing plaids with paisleys and polka-dots, but by adding an unexpected item to an outfit to make it less matchy-matchy and surprisingly more cohesive. Adding green snakeskin peeptoes with a brown a…
Never go out of the house in anything you don’t want to be seen in if by chance you bump into your ex. I always say this, I always preach this. Today I didn’t follow it. Today I took off work to get some really thrilling things accomplished (taxes, take the car in to be…
The list below of pregnancy wardrobe staples is not only from my experience from being pregnant, but complied after speaking to several other women who had been pregnant. This list of wardrobe staples when you’re pregnant will give any woman who is expecting a simple, stylish wardrobe that should have her ready for most any…