PeSuit and Tie

  p.s. a lesson in transitional staples this recent substack publication, titled  black turtleneck, i can count on you  by vogue editor plum sykes  dives into sykes' go-to articles she keeps coming back to. this fall, it's not about new pieces, but rather ways to reincarnate pre-existing loved items into a new look. here's 5 closet staples you already probably have, that are tried and true straight from our vogue insider: indyx fall trends (you didn't know you already own) here's some more guidance according to my fave clothing app, on how to be more sustainable, save money and the environment, and become more creative with our personal style. the indyx team  shared three fall trends in the rising, and alternatives before we get the urge to buy these items we realistically may not wear past fall/winter 2026: tailoring fitted suiting is back. no need to buy something new. just take last season's blazer to a tailor and let it become this season's. baseball tee...

  what i'm reading... i'm just over halfway with the grapes of wrath , and the joad family finally made it to california: and in the tractor man there grows the contempt that comes only to a stranger who has little understanding and no relation. for nitrates are not the land, nor phosphates and the length of fiber in the cotton is not the land. carbon is not a man, nor salt nor water nor calcium. he is all these, but he is much more, much more; and the land si so much more than its analysis. that man who is more than his chemistry, walking on the earth, turning his plow point for a stone, dropping his handles to slide over an outcropping, kneeling in the earth to eat his lunch; that man who is more than his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis. but the machine man, driving a dead tractor on land he does not know and love, understands only chemistry; and he is contemptuous of the land and of himself. when the corrugated iron doors are shut, he gets home, and hi...