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You are standing in front of a Loro Piana store, or more likely hovering over a product page at two in the morning, looking at a cashmere sweater that costs what a decent used car cost in 2003. You are not a person who is careless with money. The fact that you have money at… Read more

You’ve been invited to a gallery opening — a proper one, not a student show — and you’re not entirely sure what you’re supposed to be doing while you’re there. You know you’re meant to look at the art. You also know, somehow, that looking at the art is not really the point. And that… Read more

You have been invited to play golf with people who matter — a client, a partner, someone whose good opinion you are quietly trying to secure — and you have played perhaps twice in your life. You are not worried about your swing. You are worried about the invisible thing, the moment where someone glances… Read more

The keyword “what guys look for in girls” is a dating and attraction topic — it has nothing to do with social codes, unwritten rules of specific environments, or the kind of situational etiquette that Guide to Classy covers. Publishing it would mean one of two things: either a generic lifestyle piece that sounds nothing… Read more

You’ve been invited to someone’s club. Not a nightclub, not a hotel bar — a private members club. You’ve looked up the dress code on the website and found something like “smart casual” or “business casual” or, most usefully, nothing at all. Now you’re standing in front of your wardrobe the evening before, and the… Read more

You have been invited to a country house for the weekend and you have no idea what to bring. Not in the practical sense — you can figure out a bag and a toothbrush — but in the other sense. The one that keeps you staring at your wardrobe on Friday afternoon wondering whether you… Read more

You have finally bought the place. Maybe it’s your first real apartment — not a rental you were embarrassed to have people over to — or maybe it’s a house that cost more than your parents earned in a decade. Either way, you are standing in it with money to spend and a creeping suspicion… Read more

You’ve been dressing well for years — or at least, you’ve been spending money on clothes for years — and yet something still feels slightly off. Not wrong, exactly. Not embarrassing. But when you walk into certain rooms, you sense that the people who grew up in those rooms look *easy* in a way you… Read more

You’ve moved — not just cities, but categories. The people you grew up with are still exactly where you left them, and the people you’re around now are perfectly pleasant at dinner and completely unreachable by Tuesday. You have colleagues, contacts, neighbors, acquaintances who know your name and your professional history and would be startled… Read more

You’ve seen the name everywhere — on the lips of people who grew up with it, on the hangers of thrift stores where the old guard donates its cast-offs, on the backs of men who’ve been wearing the same shirts since 1987. You’re considering buying something from Brooks Brothers, and the question underneath that question… Read more