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Build your fall outfits around the layer you take off at noon

A 38-degree morning and a 70-degree afternoon are one outfit, not two. Start with what you'll be standing in at lunch and add backward from there.

GuideBRO for HerNina CastellanSep 23, 20266 min

Adult acne isn't teenage acne and it won't take teenage advice

Why it lands on your jaw at 34, what actually works on the drugstore shelf, and the point where you stop experimenting and book a dermatologist.

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GuideCity StyleTobias ReedSep 23, 20265 min

Theater Nights and Gallery Openings Need Different Clothes

One room keeps you seated in the dark for two hours. The other keeps you standing on concrete with a glass in your hand. Dress for the right one.

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Stop Dressing Like the Year You Peaked

Boot-cut jeans are a date stamp. At fifty-five, authority comes from fit, restraint and about four garments you probably don't own yet.

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GuideBRO for HerNina CastellanSep 23, 20266 min

Pay the tailor before you buy the fifth cardigan

Most of a capsule wardrobe is arithmetic and a tape measure. The rest is knowing which fabrics quit on you by March.

GuideCity StyleTobias ReedSep 23, 20266 min

Bike to work and still walk in looking pressed

Ride slower, pack smarter, and keep half your wardrobe at the office. The rumpled part of bike commuting is fixable.

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Chelsea, chukka or work boot, and what each one goes with

Your pant hem decides which boot you can wear, and most men get that order backwards. Start with a tape measure.

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Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next two weeks.

GuideBRO for HerNina CastellanSep 23, 20265 min

Going gray takes three years, unless you cut it off

The grow-out math nobody does before they start, what to ask your colorist for by name, and why silver hair is really a texture problem.

GuideCity StyleTobias ReedSep 23, 20266 min

Wear a Trench Coat Without Looking Like a Detective

The coat isn't the problem. The length, the belt buckle and whatever you've got on underneath usually are.

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GuideStyleDean ShawSep 23, 20265 min

What to wear to the bid meeting when you work with your hands

The shirt that fits your shoulders strangles your neck. Fix that, fix the pants, and you can walk into any room straight off a job site.

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Brittle nails, ridges and the six months it takes to fix them

Vertical ridges are usually just age. Horizontal ones are a date stamp. And the gloves under your sink matter more than any supplement you can buy.

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GuideMen's GroomingDean ShawSep 23, 20265 min

What Your Face Stops Doing At Thirty, Fifty And Seventy

Oil output drops, skin thins, hair turns wiry. Three short routines that keep up without adding a shelf of bottles.

GuideStyleDean ShawSep 23, 20267 min

Fold the knits, hang the wovens, and starve the moths

The sweater you lost to a pinhole was either clean when you put it away, or it wasn't. Almost everything else about storing clothes follows from that.

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GuideBRO for HerNina CastellanSep 23, 20265 min

Turn the iron down and stop taking the same pass twice

Most heat damage isn't the tool, it's the temperature you never changed and the third pass you take because the first two didn't hold.

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Is your money actually in order?

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Stop Pulling Your Shoulders Back, It Never Holds

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The clothes worth buying in your twenties, in the right order

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Build me a revision plan that I will actually stick to

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GuideBRO for HerNina CastellanSep 23, 20265 min

Cap the edge and your manicure makes it to Friday

Home polish usually fails in the same four places. Fix those and you get seven days out of a bottle you already own, no lamp required.

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Your Wave Dies In The Seven Minutes After The Shower

Wavy hair sets while it dries, not while you style it. Fix the drying and the rest of your morning gets easier.

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