The short answer on Loewe Socks: pick one anchor piece, keep the palette to two colours, and let the shoes decide how formal the whole thing reads. Repeat one element, a metal, a texture or a colour, and an outfit looks deliberate. One piece should lead and the rest should stay quiet; two competing pieces read as an accident. The band does the work, not the straps. Go down a band before you go up a cup. The groups below run from the decision that matters most to the ones you make afterwards.

What decides this is band fit, cup construction and fabric. Everything else is preference. Two from the first group show the range: fleurdumal.com's Cold Shoulder Tailored Bodysuit at $279, and spiritualgangster.com's NirvanaTech Mystic Eye Laurel Bra at $24. The first is the considered buy; the second is the one to start with. The band does the work, not the straps. Go down a band before you go up a cup. A higher price mostly buys materials and finishing, and occasionally it buys nothing at all.

Nude means nude to you, which is why the range matters. From the second group, lagence.com's Thalassa High-Leg Bodysuit ($250) is the one that earns its place, because it works in more than one context without being restyled. The third group is smaller and deliberately narrower, pieces, for the decisions you make after the main one. None of this needs the whole group. One piece from each is usually enough.

There are 20 pieces here from 17 brands, $24 to $328, all in stock when this was written. We would not buy all of them, and neither should you. spiritualgangster.com's NirvanaTech Mystic Eye Laurel Bra at $24 is the low-risk way in, and cultgaia.com's MYKO KNIT BODYSUIT - BLACK at $328 only makes sense if this is a category you already use constantly. Read as a set, they get you close to Loewe Socks without any single purchase being compulsory. Nothing here is included because it is famous, and price is not used as a proxy for quality anywhere on this page. If you take one thing away: one considered purchase beats three hedged ones.