* Black, black, black, maybe a touch of color, but basically, everyone seems to prefer black. When you think about it, though, this actually makes getting ready to leave your house pretty easy. You don’t have to think about anything except to grab a pair of black pants or skirt, black top, black tights, black shoes, black coat, and maybe a colored scarf. 
* Little ballet shoes – basically, shoes without any support. These make my feet hurt just looking at them but they are darling. My rule, of course, has always been that if your feet feel good, your shoes are surely ugly.* Hi-top shoes. I used to have a red pair that I really liked. But several years ago, my daughter suggested that I toss them—she thought they had lost their "fashion place" in my life, I guess. That was the year that they got soaked searching for the turtles on the beaches of Costa Rica; so it was time… 
* Tights—the typical ones that you’d wear if you were performing “Sleeping Beauty” at l’Opera Garnier but also some that come up to the thighs only and some footless.
* Car coats or leather waist-length coats.
* Always, always a neck scarf—females and males—triple-wrapped around the neck or tied any way—casual or fancy. *Skinny jeans.
* Pants tucked into high boots.
* High heels with pointy toes—how do they walk on those cobblestones?
* Ruffles at the bottom of coats and skirts; ruffles on sweater collars. And these ruffles are made of the same fabric--somehow they just flow with the garment. Really neat. 
* Patterned nylons—not just striped ones, for example, but even multiple colored patterns—like a Picasso painting. Seriously, I saw women older than me wearing them!
* Interesting and colorful eye glass frames with wide, fancy whatever-those-things-are-called-that-go-over-the-ears.
