I first discussed the idea for this newsletter with my editor in August 2022 after reading a dense but comprehensive Die Workwear!’s newsletter on taste. Research, revisiting old newsletters about personal style, and interrogating the problems with my wardrobe led me to create this guide. I hope we will all revisit it when we need pointers for how we want to look and what we wish to communicate with our clothes.
Writing part 1 while rebuilding my wardrobe from scratch helped me develop the vocabulary to translate my ideas; in the process, and after more vigorous self-interrogations, I have abandoned concepts I once supported.
Here’s how I think you can develop good taste in fashion: