Author: The Editors
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How to Be Classy: What the Phrase Actually Means to People Who Never Have to Say It
You have recently found yourself in rooms where you were not raised, and you are watching carefully. Not with insecurity, exactly — you have earned your place here — but with the particular alertness of someone who knows that social capital has its own grammar, and that you are still learning it. You want to… Read more
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Want to build a timeless wardrobe? Start here
You’ve just been invited to a dinner at someone’s home — not a party, a dinner — and the host is the kind of person whose house appears in magazines without their knowledge or consent. You stand in front of your wardrobe, which is full of clothes, and feel the particular cold dread of having… Read more
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Timeless pieces to Wear to a Horse Race
You have been invited to a horse race. Not a Kentucky Derby watch party at a sports bar — an actual race meeting, the kind where someone handed you a badge on a lanyard and said “we have a box.” You have looked at photographs online. You have noticed that some people look completely at… Read more
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How to be the most charismatic person in the room
You are sitting at a dinner table — a good one, the kind with real linen and no printed menus — and you are watching someone across from you. Something about them is making everyone in the room slightly more comfortable. They are not the loudest person there. They are not the best dressed. But… Read more
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Is a Rolex Worth Buying — Or Are You Paying for the Wrong Thing?
You are about to spend somewhere between eight and fifteen thousand dollars on a watch, and the thing making you hesitate is not the money. It is the nagging suspicion that buying a Rolex might be exactly the kind of move that marks you as someone who only recently had eight thousand dollars to spend.… Read more
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How to Dress for a Wine Tasting (Without Looking Like You Tried Too Hard)
You’ve been invited to a wine tasting — a real one, not a bachelorette party with a charcuterie board — and you’re standing in front of your wardrobe wondering whether to dress up or dress down, and whether getting it wrong will mark you as someone who doesn’t quite belong. The anxiety is specific: you… Read more
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How to Set a Formal Table: What the Etiquette Books Miss
You have been invited to host a dinner — or more precisely, you have invited people to dinner, and somewhere between sending the invitation and now, it has occurred to you that the table you set will be read. Not consciously, by most of them. But it will be read. The placement of a fork,… Read more
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The 20 Items That Will Make You Look Like You’ve Always Had Money
The fear isn’t that you’ll show up underdressed. The fear is subtler than that — it’s that you’ll show up in the *wrong kind* of dressed. That you’ll wear something expensive that somehow reads cheap, or something casual that signals you don’t know the difference between a Tuesday lunch and a Thursday dinner. The men… Read more
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How to Be a Good Houseguest – and be invited back
You’ve been invited to stay at someone’s home — a colleague’s country place, a new friend’s apartment, your partner’s family estate — and as you are packing you start to be quietly anxious about doing the one thing that reveals you. The small, social tell that no one mentions and everyone notices. Staying too long… Read more
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What No One Tells You About First Date Etiquette (But Everyone Notices)
So you landed your first date. Here is some advice so you can actually relax. Let’s avoid doing something — reach for the bill at the wrong moment, order in a way that reads as either too demanding or too agreeable, laugh too loudly or not loudly enough — that marks you, quietly and permanently,… Read more