No matter who you are, standing in front of the closet each day is a journey. And unless you are the possibly-lucky, possibly-not person who wears a suit to work, you are likely stuck in the business casual vortex, with an evolving understanding of which of your garms bring out the best in your other garms. The goal, of course, is that once in a while you strike gold and realize that two garms you’ve never paired together are in fact the couple of the century. And then suddenly, New Outfit Synergy (patent pending) emerges!
New Outfit Synergy is a tough thing to achieve, though, especially at the close of summer, when everything looks sweaty and you’re working with a limited layer palette. Enter: The Great Repurposed Jawn Styling Hack of 2019. The regal force of nature behind the GRJSH is Mary-Kate Olsen, who last week was spotted outside her office in a nice business casual look of sleek slacks and a kandy-kolored tangerine-flake streamline hoodie...with a buttoned-up cardigan sweater pulled around her waist as a kind of magical skirt! As Owen Wilson cannot stop saying, “WOW.” So take a look at your sweaters, coats, socks, hats, whatever—and see what you can wear backwards, yank over your head, drape over your shoulders, wrap around your waist, whatever. Even a shirt in a really WILD color tied around your waist will make you look like the Olsen triplet of your dreams. —Rachel Tashjian, staff writer