Monday host style: Ben Silver

He does look a little like he just jumped out of Ned Divine, I admit. But I love the mix of textures and solids here. Ben Silver, Charleston.

And another note for the gentlemen: G. Bruce Boyer, formerly of GQ and Esquire, and author of Elegance and Eminently Suitable, whom I hold in highest menswear knowledge esteem, is writing for Ben Silver's site. You can find his important voice here. Yet another elegant reason to check out Ben regularly.

Monday hostess style: Ruffle (and fringe) your feathers

This does not happen every year, trust me, I would know (oh, has this genre been to some bad places with me - helpless - on the merchandising caravan). But this is a year of magnificent coats and jackets. So, let's begin...

Milly



DVF

And I am just throwing this in, completely gratuitous and outside the styling above, but I love it for my horse-country Westchester fall season with my high Jackson boots or my Jimmy Choo Hunters (oh, come on, as if I could resist those, that was like boot catnip for me).



Marc by Mark Jacobs

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