Eileen Fisher, Bring Back The Not-Black Pants, Or, Saturday Morning at 10:53 am

It isn’t lost on me that many of you began to read this blog back in 2011-2013, when I was working in San Francisco, wearing clothes for working people, and taking semi-picturesque street photos of my working outfits. Kind of a bait and switch, to find ourselves talking roses, and the nature of time and memory, and whatever else falls out of my fingers on a Saturday morning.

Hence, a lil’ style post. This is made challenging by the fact that unless I’m in sweatpants or joggers, i.e. fancy sweatpants, I pretty much wear one pair of pants to every occasion.

These.

Brown, ponte Eileen Fisher lantern pants. My god I love them so. Comfortable, unflappable, easy to wash, and not black. What more could we want? Especially if we are able to find t-shirts in many compatible colors? If we are me?

Worn here with a Vince jacket, ribbed J. Crew t-shirt, and Paul Green loafers.  A tonal outfit. Various shades of brown from reddish- through chocolate to mustard and so on. Small gold earrings because everything else feels like my kind of polished and no use gilding a, well, if not a lily a very friendly daffodil.

This is the cheerful spring look. Ted Baker floral tee, Birkenstocks, pearl earrings and toothy smile to tie into the white shirt.

This is comfy winter. Church oxfords with an exceedingly thick sole, a cropped UNIQLO puffer, Madewell tee in the color “Redwood,” an anonymous pink and white scarf and large preppy gold knot earrings. The earrings to balance the shoes, don’t you know.

Finally, the urban tough look. In comfortable shoes, however. Black ribbed tee from UNIQLO, oversized black denim jacket from Madewell, HOKAs, and dangly gold earrings. Hippy jewelry meets cool girl aspirations. Pretty much says it all.

I suppose my point here, other than a cry for Eileen Fisher to make these again in a color other than black, is that with a solid color strategy encompassing tonal shade, neutrals and patterns, along with an understanding of what you will and won’t wear (comfortable pants yes, t-shirts yes, jeans and woven shirts not unless I’m “dressing up” California style), you don’t need many clothes to have some fun.

My chest of drawers, my “bureau” as my mother called it, thanks me.

As I thank you for reading whichever incarnation of Privilege floats your idiomatic boat. Have a wonderful weekend!