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Your trench isn’t the problem. The belt tied in a limp knot, the sleeves puddling past your wrists, the wrinkles from six months folded in a closet — that’s the problem. A good trench is one of the few coats that can look better with age, but only when the details around it are doing...

Polyester was everywhere, the Vietnam War was on television, and somewhere in a department store a woman was trying on a platform sandal that would have looked unhinged a decade earlier. Shoes in the 1970s were caught between the polished sixties and a decade busily inventing its own rules: natural leather one minute, disco metallics...

Straight-leg jeans have spent years being blamed for outfits they didn’t ruin. The cut is rarely the problem. Trouble starts when everything around it goes vague at once: a shapeless top, an anonymous shoe, no break at the waist, and suddenly perfectly good jeans look like something chosen because the laundry basket won. Fall gives...

A round face can wear almost anything, but if the goal is to make it look a little longer and leaner, the haircut has plenty of ways to help. The interesting part is how many ways a stylist can get there without giving every woman the same long bob and sending her home. At 52,...

Stand in any store long enough, and you can spot the types. The woman reading a garment tag like it’s a legal contract. The one who hit the sale rack before her coat was even off. The one who left ten minutes ago having bought nothing, again. Shopping has a way of exposing our decision-making...