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Skirt suit mania and a 22-jacket edit from the luxury second-hand internet (with most priced under $800), featuring good skirts and the right shoe styles to pair with them!!!

At Present’s lifesaver belt is the (or more specifically, my) piece of the szn, partially because of the colors — the color way here on a more traditional belt will similarly contextualize a spring palette. Styled here with a vintage terry cloth jacket (decades old TRR find; don’t hate a beaded fringe hem like this (+ neckline) or something even simpler like this/this/this in its stead), a khaki button down shirt (its brushed flannel; here are the best two in cotton), a Lisa Yang skirt (the silk is also lovely; for more structure (which will make the untucked shirt feel more serious, something like this from Tibi) and there’s a little inkling of a Phoebe Philo red clog (for walkability, it’s these)

Are you feeling dried up and crusty, or has your great thaw started? A new pattern I’m detecting surrounds a familiar sense of aggression coated in the subtlest bit of desperation that kicks in this time of year and produces an oddly exquisite dance with its most polarizing opponent: the urge to soak in renewed faith or hope and creative urgency.