Three Ways to Style Three Suits This Holiday Season

People are always talking about wearing shiny shit over the holiday season. Sequins or lamé or tinsel in fashion form — and that’s all fine and well. As a matter of fact, it’s great. Without the holiday season, would we feel so inclined to dress up as disco balls? Would we ever experience the sheer joy that emerges as a result of emulating a universal totem of jubilation? I don’t know.

But there are also those of us who take great joy in assuming the garments that already contribute to our wardrobes at large and turning them into optimal holiday party outfits. So in the first of a three-part series that will explore how to dress this season, let us consider the pant suit.

We’ll start with the below red one, which if you remember correctly covers the back of my first book.

Acne suit (here’s another jacket and pant option), Palmer//Harding shirt, Sophia Webster heels

It’s fairly festive right off the bat given the color combination but with the mere introduction of an elaborate button down shirt that is also kind of a dress it becomes the world greatest holiday conversation starter.

Example: party-goer #1 says, “What is that blue shirt you’re wearing under your fantastic suit? Is it even a shirt?”

You say, “Here’s my number.”

Cut to three years from now and boom! You’re pregnant.

I’m so proud of you.

Now let’s look at a more traditional suit.

Isa Arfen jacket and pants, Topshop turtleneck, Are You Am I tank top, Jimmy Choo sandals

One way to take the corporate gray suit from work to parrrrrrty is to make like Sheryl and lean into the holiday stereotypes with, for example, a silver metallic turtleneck that kind of looks like liquid. I also added a white silk tank over the turtleneck because that seemed like a fun way to break up all the gray shit happening. Furthermore, there are gold shoes on my feet defying the rules about what color metals you’re allowed to wear while suggesting a new rule: there are none. This is a cool conversation starter too, because when Patrick from accounting asks you to file your expense report before you take off for Christmas, you can change the subject by putting him out of his misery and explaining that yes, this is in fact the very suit you wore last week while you were engaged in water cooler chat. Can you believe it?

It’s still not butter!

You can also just pull the frost bitten toes card.

And finally, here’s a very literal approach to holiday party suiting:

Racil jacket and pants, James Perse t-shirt, Shourouk necklace and Hermès bandana

Rhinestones on a jacket. A pink velvet sari over my breasticles and a shiny-ass detail around my neck. This approach was very much in line with an old but very basic principle about getting dressed as a man repeller: if you can’t beat them, confuse them. Blindfold yourself, enter your closet and then pick an outfit. See what happens.

Happy

Merry

Kwanzmaskah.

Photographed by Krista Anna Lewis

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