I love demure and girly dresses like this long-sleeved dress from Madewell with a dropped waist, mock turtleneck, and feminine smocking details at the neck and wrists. But when the occasion (or my mood) calls for something less sweet, I like to toughen up a pretty-girl dress with socks and ankle boots. For this look, I
Put a little lead in your pencil! Your pencil skirt, that is. Nothing says, “I’m serious about work” like a fabulous pencil skirt. Which is exactly why most of us never wear our office-worthy pencil skirts anywhere BUT the office. When styled with a denim bomber jacket a denim bomber jacket and low ankle boots, however,
