Sixty and beyond
The most confident accessory wearers there are. Colour, brooches, statement necklaces — worn as signature rather than as trend.
These pages are about how we suggest styling things, not about what you are allowed to wear. Everything on this site is for anyone who likes it.
Outfit ideas
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A white shirt and straight jeans, five ways up
The outfit everyone owns. What you hang on it is the entire difference between errands and dinner.
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The black dress, without the pearls-and-heels default
A plain black dress is a blank surface. The mistake is treating it as a finished outfit.
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The first properly cold day
Four items that turn a coat into an outfit, all of which also keep you warm.
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Wedding guest, and the bag nobody plans for
The dress gets months of thought. The accessories get bought the day before, which is the wrong way round.
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Building a signature instead of following a season
The women who wear accessories best are not chasing trends. They picked a thing and kept it.
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Airport to arrival, in things that go through security
Accessories chosen for a day of being handled, scanned, and slept in.
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One colour, five places: styling the season’s burgundy
How to use the colour of the season without ending up in head-to-toe wine.
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A blazer with jeans, and the four ways it goes wrong
The most-worn smart-casual outfit in America, and the one most often let down by its accessories.
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All black in winter, without looking like you gave up
Black on black is a choice or a default, and accessories are the only thing that says which.
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The summer dress in its last three weeks
It is still 90 degrees and the shops are full of wool. Here is how to keep wearing what you own.
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The office party, dressed from the neck up
Festive enough to have made an effort, restrained enough to face those people on Monday.
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Saturday, walking around, carrying things
Hands free, sun off your face, and nothing you would mind putting down on a wall.
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Dressing the top nine inches
A camera crops you at the collarbone. Almost every accessory you own is below the frame.
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Theatre, concert, anywhere you sit in the dark
Dressed enough for the foyer, comfortable enough for three hours in a seat built in 1890.
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Rain, and the accessories that survive it
Suede, silk and straw are all wrong today. Here is what to reach for instead.
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Sunday lunch with people who will comment
Family lunch has its own dress code, and most of it is about not looking like you tried too hard or not at all.
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A city on foot, for nine hours
Chosen for a day of walking, queuing, carrying and being in other people’s photographs.
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Presenting: dressing for a room that is looking at you
Unlike an interview, here you want to be remembered. The constraints are about movement and noise.
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The five-minute swap that makes summer clothes work in September
You do not need autumn clothes yet. You need to change four accessories and keep wearing what you own.
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Western on a Tuesday: one piece, nothing else
How to wear the trend when you live in an apartment and work in an office.
Trends worth knowing
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Peaking now
Burgundy is the new neutral
Deep wine has quietly taken the job black used to do — and it is easier to wear than it sounds.
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Peaking now
Top-handle bags, and why they change how you stand
Structured, compact, carried in the hand. The most formal thing you can do to an outfit without changing it.
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On the way out
Raffia: buy it now, at the price it is now
A summer trend at the end of its summer. Which makes this the sensible month to buy one.
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Peaking now
The unstructured bag, and why it needs good leather
Buttery, frameless, meant to age. The one trend this season where the material is not negotiable.
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Rising
Animal print, and the case for anything but leopard
Zebra, python and cowhide are the fresher half of this. Leopard is the half everyone already owns.
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Peaking now
Clutches got strange, and better for it
A bag that holds a phone and a card, and exists to be looked at. The least practical thing here, deliberately.
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Peaking now
The flap bag is the safest buy of the season
The shape that has never actually been out. This year it comes puffier.
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Peaking now
Statement earrings are doing the work this season
Cascading drops, Art Deco shapes, hoops larger than you last wore. The cheapest way into the season.
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On the way out
What’s not: the tiny gold chain
Every source we read this month says the same thing: minimalism is over. Here is what that actually means for a wardrobe you…
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Rising
The brooch is the season’s surprise
Named the standout jewellery item of Fall 2026. Also the one hiding in your mother’s drawer.
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Rising
Gold with silver is now the current-looking choice
The rule about not mixing metals is gone, and matching everything is what now reads dated.
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Peaking now
Pearls, but irregular and worn with denim
Uneven shapes, layered strands, no occasion required. Pearls have lost the formality.
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Rising
One wide cuff instead of five thin bangles
The wrist has gone from a stack to a single object. Quieter to wear and considerably louder to look at.
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Rising
Charms, initials and the return of jewellery that means something
Initials, birthstones and small objects that stand for something. The most-given accessory category there is.
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Peaking now
The cocktail ring, and why one is enough
A single oversized stone on one finger. The evening counterpart to this season’s earrings.
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Peaking now
The silk head scarf is the most 2026 thing you can do
Tied at the nape, folded as a headband, or knotted under the chin. Three completely different looks from one square of fabric.
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Rising
Knitwear for your head and neck
Beanies and heavy knit scarves shown as fashion rather than as weather-proofing.
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Rising
Brims are getting bigger
Oversized face-framing brims on the runway, structured caps and leather buckets on the street.
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Always works
Headbands, claw clips and the case for the cheap accessory
Consistently among Amazon’s best-selling accessories, and the category where spending more buys the least.
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Rising
The scarf as a garment, not an afterthought
Big enough to change your silhouette rather than decorate it. Worn over the coat, not under it.
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Always works
What people are actually buying: aviators, rectangles and 90s cat-eye
The runway says shield frames. The shopping data says something completely different, and it is worth knowing both.
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Rising
Gloves as clothing, not as weather gear
Opera length on the runway, short leather in real life. Both are being worn as a layer rather than for the cold.
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Rising
Watches: yellow gold, smaller cases, coloured dials
The one accessory most women wear every day, and the one they think about least.
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Peaking now
The genuinely enormous bag
Not a big bag. A comically large one, carried on purpose — and the shape most likely to wreck your shoulder.
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Rising
Pink is being sold as a neutral. Is it?
Soft pink is one of the season’s key bag colours, and the neutral claim holds — but only for about half the pinks on sale.
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Peaking now
Western grew up: one element, not the whole outfit
The 2026 version is less costume and more wardrobe. One western piece against ordinary clothes is the whole method.
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Rising
Turquoise and silver — and how to buy it honestly
The most beautiful thing in western dressing, and the one with real rules attached. Worth understanding before you spend anything.
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Peaking now
The cowboy hat, and the crease that decides everything
Treated as a power accessory rather than fancy dress. The difference is almost entirely in the crown.
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Rising
The bolo tie is a necklace now
A cord, a slide and two metal tips. Worn with a shirt rather than a western outfit, it is the sharpest thing here.