Welcome! My name is Alison, and I’m so glad you’re here at Wardrobe Oxygen! In 2005, underutilized while sitting in a cubicle in Corporate America, I began a fashion blog to share what I had learned over a decade as a personal stylist, personal shopper, apparel visual merchandiser, and apparel retail trainer. Read on to…
If you visited Wardrobe Oxygen in the past 24 hours you likely saw an “Under Construction” message instead of my blog. As I mentioned in last week’s Weekend Reads, I am renovating this site. It is not just a makeover with new font or layout, but an entire framework change as well as theme. And…
I know I am not the only one who looks at their reflection a little more in January than any other month of the year. A new year can do that to you. Me maybe more than others as at the beginning of this month, I birthed my daughter, and at the end of the…
Recently in the Wardrobe Oxygen Community on Facebook, a member said she was mistaken for being older than her age and wanted to know how to look more youthful without injectables or cosmetic modifications. As we all told this individual, the issue is with the other person, not with her. She’s fabulous, and others, especially…
As I got older, my skincare routine got more complex. I looked for products to reverse the damage I did from years of tanning beds, no sunscreen, and going to bed with my face still coated in the day’s makeup and mess. But in the past couple of years, I have been looking to pare…
I know I am not the only one who once the temps drop below 40 degrees becomes an itchy, scaly, sensitive mess. I’ve had my skin crack and even bleed in winter, and it seems so many different kinds of fabric will just irritate the heck out of me days after I wore them. But…
Weekend Reads As you clean out your closets for the new year, here’s how to do it right. (Washington Post – gift article) Drinkng whiskey from teacups. (Men Yell At Me) How the cult of consumerism ushered in an era of badly made products. (Vox) With a new tour, Madonna shows she will never go…
A Twitter friend mentioned me in a tweet; she bought a robe from Soma last winter and loved it as much as I did. She was recommending it as a great gift, especially because at the time of her tweet and the time I am writing this, it was on sale. And now I can’t…
Weekend Reads Young women broke hard for Democrats in the midterms. (The Hill) You might go through hell for your post-Ozempic body. (The Cut) Steve Comes Home: How the ‘Blue’s Clues’ host overcame death rumors and depression to return to his beloved TV pup. (Variety) Thousands were released from prison during covid. The results are…