The short answer on Lululemon Rest and Restore Eye Mask: 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. Proportion does more than colour: volume on top wants something narrow below, and the reverse. The band does the work, not the straps. Go down a band before you go up a cup. Worth saying plainly: our partner brands do not stock lululemon rest and restore eye mask itself, so what follows is the pieces we would actually put with it rather than links we cannot stand behind. 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: 12thtribe.com's Dove White Bridal Robe at $88, and Retro Fete's Isola Bodysuit at $228. The first is the easy entry point; the second is where the money goes. 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, splits59.com's Airweight Scoop Back Bra ($78) 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 14 brands, $8 to $366, all in stock when this was written. We would not buy all of them, and neither should you. felina.com's Lola Lace Thong at $8 is the low-risk way in, and retrofete.com's Jacinta Suede Fringe Bra at $366 only makes sense if this is a category you already use constantly. To be straight about it, if you came here only for lululemon rest and restore eye mask, this page will not solve that. It will solve what goes around it. 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: pay for the thing that touches your body and economise on the thing that sits on top of it.