What to Wear This Week Visualized

Don’t you ever wish someone lived inside your closet? You couldn’t see this person, it might not even actually be a person, but when prompted on the account of fatigue, laziness, whatever, it would shout at you: “High waist jeans, bottom left. Plaid button down from center fold. Wear it over striped shirt — the one that’s bedside. Black and white loafers. Red socks.”

This tune would change according to varying factors be they weather, mood or simply day, and just like that, without even having had to think, you’d be dressed. For today, for tomorrow, for whenever you needed the advisement of a voice you trusted, you believed in — you knew would never fail you.

Of course, in the modern world, the posterior voice has a name and even comes with the silhouette of a human who need not live in your closet; he or she is called a stylist. But there’s a fundamental difference between the conception described above and the occupational dresser-getter because the voice, you see, is actually yours. You might not realize it, but it only tells you to do things you’d probably have wanted to, or tried to do anyway.

Can I be real here?

I want to be that voice. For you. Which is precisely out of where last Friday’s What to Wear Next Week was born. But I understand that even the most scrupulous market research might not be enough to incite a wheel falling into motion so here you have it: all three outfits worn by me. You should know that I think I have a fever. Also that my sinus-plagued eyebrows feel like shimmying caterpillars.

But that is neither here nor there.

When I said wear a boxy blazer with a mini skirt, this is what I meant.

The pictured garments include a Stella McCartney blazer located on The Outnet (but you knew that), a t-shirt by Adam Lippes, skirt by All Saints and boots by Eugenia Kim.

When I said consider fringe and suede the sorority sisters you never had, I meant:

The jacket is Isabel Marant, the shirt dress is Christopher Kane, the jeans are Paige and the retired masseuse-inspired sandals are Chloé. The sunglasses are by Vint & York.

Finally, when I said wear fitted overalls, I was in fact envisioning the particular pair I once wore on the cover of a book that I once wrote.

The bow tie here is Saint Laurent, the shirt is from Everlane, the overalls are Stella McCartney (though Frame Denim makes a mean pair, too), and I feel like I’m about to ski. Down a mountain void of snow.

Cheers.