Clothing
Clothing
Buying Cashmere
Cashmere comes in very different qualities, and the price reflects that more than you might think. A one-hundred-dollar cashmere sweater from a fast retailer is not the same fibre as a five-hundred-dollar one from a designer.
The Dress Edit
A wide edit of designer dresses for women, from broderie cotton midis for the day to satin maxis for after dark. Each one is chosen for how it fits and how it moves.
Business Casual, Decoded
Business casual has drifted so far that the phrase no longer describes a single outfit. What it means in practice now, and the small number of pieces that satisfy every version of it.
Dresses and Occasion Pieces, Ranked
If you like Reformation but not the price or the ubiquity, the useful move is to match the shape and the material rather than hunting a copy. The details that give a cheap version away are lining, edge finishing and the weight of the fastenings.
Occasion Dresses And Statement Pieces
Everything worth knowing about occasion dresses and statement pieces is below, starting with the part that changes what you buy. A dress that fits the shoulders can be taken in anywhere else.
Button-Down Shirts and Blouses
The short answer on button-down shirts and blouses: pick one anchor piece, keep the palette to two colours, and let the shoes decide how formal the whole thing reads. One piece should lead and the rest should stay quiet; two competing pieces read as an accident.
Soft Shorts For Off-Duty Days
The short answer on soft shorts for off-duty days: 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.
Floral Mini and Midi Dresses
Yes, an unlined dress can be see through, especially when its fabric is light, open in texture, or pale. The useful test is not the changing-room mirror. Stand in direct daylight and look at the skirt from the
Building Around an Investment Piece
How to buy the expensive thing first and make the rest of the wardrobe answer to it.
THE UPSIDE Trousers, Denim and Skirts: The Pieces Worth Buying This Season
THE UPSIDE. Our edit of 20 trousers, denim and skirts pieces
Fashion Icon: Outfit Ideas
Outfit ideas for Fashion Icon work best when one piece leads and the rest stays quiet. Check the shoulder seam first; a coat that pulls there will never sit right.
Matching Loungewear
The line between a matching set that reads as an outfit and one that reads as sleepwear comes down to four things. Here they are, with the pieces on each side of the line.
Silver Satin Dress: Editors' Picks
Sixteen silver satin dresses, from slip midis and structured minis to draped gowns and long maxis, with notes on how to tell good satin from bad and what to wear with it.
Best Knit Sweaters
Best Knit Sweaters are not about collecting softness. They are about finding the layer that solves the exact moment when a shirt is too little and a coat is too much. I sort them by proportion first, then by texture, because a crewneck, tank, cardigan, or polo changes an outfit b
Poplin Or Oxford: Choosing A Shirt
For a poplin vs oxford shirt, the key difference is the weave and the way that weave behaves.
Grey Supreme Sweatpants: A Buying Guide
Buying Grey Supreme Sweatpants comes down to a few checks you can do from the product page. Everything else is preference.
An Italian Summer
Slides, sandals, a slip dress and the fragrance that ties it together. How to put together a warm-weather wardrobe that works from the beach to dinner without changing everything in between.
Strapless, Backless or Halter
An honest look
Our Hamptons Style Selects
Hamptons dressing gets described as preppy, which is not quite right. It is closer to a set of constraints: natural fibres, a short colour list, and nothing that looks like it needed effort. Linen, cotton poplin, stripe, gingham, white, navy and a lot of sand. The reason it works in photographs and in real life is that the palette is so narrow that everything matches by accident, and the fabrics look better slightly crumpled than they do pressed. The failure mode is dressing like a catalogue, with the matching set, the matching bag and the matching sandal all bought on the same afternoon. Below, twenty four pieces sorted by price, from a seventy dollar smocked cami to a poplin skort, and a note on which of the matching sets in here are actually worth taking as a pair.
How Linen Actually Fits
Whether to size up, and by how much
The Cardigan as a Top
A cardigan as a top is either a real choice or it looks borrowed from someone's closet. The difference is not the cardigan itself, but what sits underneath it and what you pair it with in the overall outfit.
Poolside Dresses, Skirts, and Tops
What to pack for Poolside Chic: fewer pieces, chosen so they work together rather than separately. Fabrics that recover from creasing matter more than weight when the case is small.
Coats, Jackets, And Cardigans For Layering
Everything worth knowing about Burberry New Coats is below, starting with the part that changes what you buy. Check the shoulder seam first; a coat that pulls there will never sit right.
Leggings Worth Trying Instead
Everything worth knowing about leggings worth trying instead is below, starting with the part that changes what you buy. Buying the same silhouette from a brand that makes it properly ages better than buying a near-copy of a famous one.