Outfit ideas
Accessory recipes for clothes you already own. Each one starts from something ordinary — a white shirt, a black dress, a coat — and shows what to hang on it.
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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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School run to lunch without going home
The accessories that survive a car, a playground and a coat, and still work sitting down.
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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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Interview accessories: the ones that stay out of the way
The only outfit on this site where the goal is for the accessories not to be remembered.
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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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A first accessory kit that is not all going in the bin by March
Cheap is the correct decision at this stage. Cheap and disposable is not the same thing.
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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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Dinner, and the accessories that survive sitting down
Almost all of this outfit will be seen from the chest up, across a table, in low light.
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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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Leaving the gym looking like you chose the outfit
Four accessories that turn athleisure into an outfit, none of which will bother you in a class.
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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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A first date, and the accessory that gives you something to do
Wear one thing with a story attached to it. It is worth more than anything that just looks good.
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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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The last properly warm weekend
Wear the summer things now, properly, one more time. Most of them are going away for eight months.
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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.
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A country gig, a rodeo, or anywhere the theme is the point
The one context where the full western thing is correct — and it still needs to survive eight hours on your feet.