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.
Shorts are one of the hardest things to shop for. Outside of bathing suits, shorts can have you over-examining your body with cuts, lengths, and shapes that can accentuate that which you don’t love and minimize the good. Many women choose to never wear shorts and I get it and respect that decision. I didn’t… Continue Reading Shopping Hits and Misses: Shorts Edition
If Melania’s jacket proved anything it’s that people judge what we wear and make decisions on our reasoning for our sartorial choices. When you’re in the public eye, it’s imperative to portray an image that matches your message and look for ways to control your narrative. Wardrobe Oxygen is about helping women find their personal… Continue Reading Campaign Trail Fashion for a Female Politician
What trends do you see lasting and which ones are going out of fashion? I usually guess by what goes on clearance but I see cold shoulders on clearance and cold shoulders in new arrivals. Help! It seems like plus-size offerings are saturated with bell/balloon selves and cold shoulders (still!!). Any idea how long the… Continue Reading Fashion Trends: Which Are Timeless and Which Should be Tossed?
It’s hot out, what to wear when you’re not feeling shorts or dresses? Lightweight wide-leg pants are my jam for easy summer dressing. No chub rub, coverage, but still able to catch a breeze. In a print, wide-leg pants hide creases, sweat, and are an optical illusion cor curves. I found these paperbag waist pants… Continue Reading What I Wore: Paperbag Waist Pants
For the fourth year, cabi has hosted cabi Blogger Day where they invite a handful of influencers to cabi HQ for a bit of a behind the scenes, a sneak peek of the upcoming collection and a lot of fun. I have worked with cabi for a while and was honored to be one of… Continue Reading Cabi Blogger Day: A Recap
So many of us have emotional attachments to pieces in our wardrobes. We wore that dress when we met our partner, that suit helped us land our dream job, our lucky blouse that every time we wear we have a great day. But some clothing is kept even though it isn’t a positive relationship. We… Continue Reading Do You Have a Toxic Friendship with your Closet?
I had an amazing experience at the Trunk Club Clubhouse in DC. My stylist Kelsey did a great job picking pieces that were my style, but also a bit outside my comfort zone. I left with a dress, a blazer, a pair of jeans, and a pair of shoes. With the seasons changing, I decided… Continue Reading Trunk Club Review
My dad died in March of 1998. I was working as an Assistant Manager of an Express, my sister was still in college. It seemed that spring was just about trying to function. We needed so many copies of his death certificate to deal with student loans in his name, cars in his name, medical… Continue Reading My First Designer Bag: The Kate Spade ‘Sam’
Welcome to the latest edition of things that arrived in Allie’s mail and whether or not she liked them. For reference, I am 5’3″ and vary between regular and petite sizing. I wear a size 12, occasionally 14 and usually a Large. Below I will share what I ordered or was gifted to me by… Continue Reading Shopping Hits and Misses: Universal Standard, Nordstrom, Talbots, Banana Republic, and More