I get asked this question a lot because good-quality women’s basics are soooooooo hard to come by now. A quick thread 🧵

https://twitter.com/churchofysl/status/1770569935078728140

001 / I’m not joking when I say THE GAP. The quality isn’t as good as it was in the ‘90s, so I recommend thrifting an old tag — but their fabric quality and cuts are probably the best you can find on a smaller budget. Makes me curious to see what Zac Posen does with the brand.

People keep asking me why women’s trenches and overcoats don’t look like they did in the 80s and 90s and I have answers baby 🧵

The obvious problem is with fit. The looseness of a pre-2000 trench was much more subtle. These aren’t baggy coats by any means, but they also have a good amount of breathing room at the upper arm, the shoulder, and the waist, even when belted.

By popular demand… FASHION HISTORY BOOK RECS, a thread 🗝 Will say I’m focusing on unsung titles across eras&spheres instead of academic basics. If you’re looking for a foundational overview, start with Seeling’s FASHION: 150 YEARS OF COUTURIERS, DESIGNERS, LABELS, or Racinet’s COMPLETE COSTUME HISTORY.

Anyways, in no particular order:

I constantly get DM’d asking for Fashion Theory recs, so I made a short thread 🫡 Fashion education is still very much inside baseball, so if there’s any way I can flatten that knowledge gap for you, LMK. You can absolutely learn all this stuff for free — it’s out there if you look for it (or if you DM me, hint hint) 👀

Anyways, in no particular order: