Style Journal by Elan

How to Style Double Denim This Fall, Without the Costume Effect

By Elan Team

There's a particular kind of denim outfit that reads as trying too hard: two pieces in nearly the same wash, worn head to toe, that end up looking more like a uniform than an outfit....
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Some ELAN Styles Don't Get Retired, They Get a New Color

By Elan Team

Most fashion brands treat a color the same way they treat a trend: once it stops moving, it's gone, and a new one takes its place the following season. ELAN, family owned since Elan and...
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What to Wear to a Fall Engagement Party

By Elan Team

An engagement party almost never comes with a dress code printed on the invitation, which is exactly what makes it tricky to plan for. It might be a backyard afternoon with the couple's parents pouring...
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Janet Dress: The Suede Finish That Makes a Shirtdress Feel Like Fall

By Elan Team

A suede-finish shirtdress and a color-blocked sweater make the case for dressing well through a fall week that can't settle on one temperature.
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The Denim Shirt Dress Everyone Is Belting, Unbuttoning, and Layering This Fall

By Elan Team

Fall dressing tends to split into two piles: things built for a properly cold day, and things built for the handful of warm afternoons still sneaking in between them. A shirt dress does something rarer....
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ELAN Was Never Just a Resort Brand, It Just Started There

By Elan Team

ELAN started in Miami in 1991, and for a long time that fact did most of the talking. A brand founded steps from the water, built by a husband and wife who paid close attention...
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What to Wear in Palm Beach, From Worth Avenue to Sunset by the Water

By Elan Team

Palm Beach dresses differently than the rest of Florida. It is pastel stucco and green-and-white awnings, a barrier island narrow enough to walk end to end, closer in spirit to a Mediterranean seaside town than...
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Robbie Maxi: One Dress Built for Two Different Temperatures

By Elan Team

Fall dressing has a specific kind of problem that summer and winter don't: the same fifteen minutes can ask for a coat and a fan. Leave the house on the first properly cold morning of...
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What to Wear to a Fall Baby Shower

By Elan Team

Baby shower invitations have a way of landing right as the weather turns, and the dress code question that comes with them is never quite as simple as it sounds. It has to be warm...
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