This week, we’ll be on a slightly different posting schedule.  I have a mailbox full of Ask the Edit posts that have gone unanswered for far too long.  The morning posts will remain the same and The Edition will still run this afternoon, but the rest of the week will be reader mail posts.

At some point in the last decade, the quality of clothing and jewelry went downhill.  Even big-time designers are making their dresses with polyblend.  And finding an affordable (or at least semi-affordable) piece of jewelry in pure metal, forget about it. Or maybe miracles do happen…

Last week, we got a little taste of spring.  It was 55-degrees and sunny for three days straight.  People were outside.  Dog were walked.  Moods brightened, and spirits lifted.  And then, it snowed.  For a week.  But spring is coming, I promise, and this is the dress for it.

Wrap dresses, the saviors of my wardrobe.  Gain a few pounds, lose a few pounds, no problem.  For work, add a blazer.  For cocktails, add big earrings and cool shoes.  For weekend brunch, cute flats and a leather jacket.

My office is always cold, so I keep a desk sweater on my chair at all times.  It was the same when I worked on Capitol Hill, in my clinic office, and at my state office.  But not all desk-chair sweaters are created equal.