A Style Journal

Outfit ideas for you, your guy, and your family.

Real outfits, useful guidance, and an opinion about which shade of burgundy actually photographs in October.

By Allena Rissa. Read by women who've been picking what their family wears for years and want better ideas.

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Five places to start.

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Her Style

Aesthetic guides, body shape, color, capsules, single-item styling, age-banded outfits.
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His Style

Men's outfits written for the woman who picks what he wears (and the man who is fine with that).
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Together

Family photos, couple outfits, Halloween costume coordination, the Christmas card shot.
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Occasions

Weddings, holidays, travel, date nights, work outfits, and every other event the calendar produces.
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Foundation

Bras, lingerie, and the underlying mechanics of why an outfit fits the way it does.
Meet Allena

The woman who's been picking what everyone in her house wears.

I'm Allena Rissa. I have been writing about clothes since I was twenty-two and dressing my husband, kids, and self for nine years of family photos, fall weddings, work conferences, and Christmas cards that needed to land.

The Better Fit is where I put what I've figured out. The articles are long because the answers are not short. They are practical because the readers are busy. They are opinionated because nobody needs more "do whatever feels right."

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A note from the editor

"The household stylist has always existed. Every family has one. She is the woman who picks what her guy will wear to the wedding, what the kids will wear to the holiday party, and what she will wear to the thing on Saturday that turned out to be nicer than expected."

Allena Rissa, on what this site is for

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