Back to the Casual Office this Fall? Start With Art: Cityscape by Alice Neel

July 27, 2026 The email was not unexpected, but she still wasn’t thrilled to read it – everybody should be IN THE OFFICE three days a week, starting at the beginning of September… She hasn’t been in the office on a regular basis in years. Literally. So she’s going to plan a small work wardrobe that will see her through three days a week without a lot of thinking. Just making the trip back and forth is going to be quite enough additional effort! She’s got green eyes, lots of freckles, dark reddish brown hair, and a fondness for autumn colors. Her inspiration is going to be this: Unlike so many other wardrobe plans, this one’s starting with accent colors! When our heroine found both burgundy (that delightful Fig color from L.L.Bean), she knew that was where she wanted to begin. She decided to make the camel-ish tan in the painting a bit darker, to flatter her complexion. And a classic denim shirt and jeans MUST be part of her wardrobe. She knows full well that at least a few of her…