So you’ve started assembling a spring wardrobe somewhat piecemeal. (You can’t always predict what you’ll acquire at a winter sale!). Now it’s time to take stock of what you have and figure out how, exactly, you’re going to wear it all together. That’s why we set out to style six full spring outfits on a budget—no ensemble could cost more than $100—that bring together some of our favorite trends and styling tricks from the runways with pieces you’ve likely already been eyeing for the season. The result? A series of fresh, non-boring looks that’ll make the anticipation for warmer, sunnier days feel much more bearable. See what we came up with, ahead.
Maybe it felt a little familiar—a young, telegenic progressive who grew up in Hawaii taking the stage at the Democratic National Convention.
For Tulsi Gabbard, who’d started a political career in state government, being invited to speak at the 2012 convention was unusual—she was only a candidate for Congress, not a member. Still, she’d caught the eye of party brass, and there she was in Charlotte, North Carolina, talking about her time in a war zone with the National Guard, and honoring the troops, and moving America forward.
Gabbard and the Democrats were there, of course, to celebrate and renominate Hawaii-raised President Barack Obama, who in 2004, as a young candidate for U.S. Senate, had given the rousing DNC speech that put him on the path to the White House.
In 2016, Gabbard was back at the DNC podium. This time, she wasn’t there to lend her voice to the party’s choice, Hillary Clinton; instead, she was there to formally nominate Clinton’s primary rival, Bernie Sanders.
And now, she’s kicked off her own bid to stand at that podium in 2020 as the Democrats’ pick to face off against President Donald Trump. At 37, she’ll be on one of the youngest Democrats in the mix (Julian Castro, who’s also making a run, is 44), which might increase her appeal to young, motivated voters.
Gabbard sat down with Glamour in New York prior to her formal announcement, which is scheduled for Saturday, January 19, and talked about what’s important to her, what’s not, and why she was considering getting into the race.
So, who is Tulsi Gabbard?
Why do this, and why now? “Ultimately, what this comes down to is having leaders in this country who are focused first and foremost on serving and fighting for the people in this country and fighting for our planet and fighting for peace,” she says. “This is what I’m focused on and I’m seeing how can I best be of service to the people of this country.”
Does she think America is finally ready to elect a woman president? “I do. But I think more people are looking for a president who will be a servant leader, who will be a champion for them, regardless of gender or race or anything else. I supported Bernie Sanders in 2016, and the challenge that I heard from people, some in the media and just others, [was], ‘How dare you not support someone who could become the first woman president!’ And my response to them was, ‘I’m offended that you are assuming that I can only think as far as my gender.’ Substance matters. Leadership matters. Judgment matters,” Gabbard says. “Having a leader and a commander-in-chief who’s able to have foresight and think through what the consequences are of the policies and the decisions that they’re making—I think this is what is more at the forefront on people’s minds as they consider who our next president should be than is it going to be a man or a woman?”
Her tough talk—especially on foreign policy (she once memorably tweeted at the president that “being Saudi Arabia’s bitch is not ‘America First’”)—might seem jarring when laid out side by side with her frequent talk of living in the Aloha State. But she has no plans to dial down the intensity.
“You know, ‘aloha’ is most often used as a way to say hello or goodbye. But what a lot of folks don’t realize is that the word aloha has a much more powerful deep meaning,” she says. “The fact is we use it to greet people because [when] I aloha you [it means] I’m coming to you with an open heart and with love and with respect, and a recognition that we are all interconnected.”
Gabbard has lived in Hawaii since she was a young child (she was born in American Samoa), and her father, Mike, was elected to the state legislature there. In 2002, when she was 21, Gabbard became the youngest person ever elected to the legislature. She stepped down in 2004 to deploy to the Middle East with the Hawaii Army National Guard, serving two tours. Between deployments, she worked for the late veteran Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii), and later served on the Honolulu City Council before her 2012 election to Congress. She was one of the first female combat vets in to serve and took the Congressional oath of office on the Bhagavad Gita as the first Hindu member of the House.
Gabbard was 33 when she married cinematographer Abraham Williams (he was 26), after they bonded over surfing and their love of nature and the sea. “I’m so grateful to have the love and support from my best friend and my partner in my life. Every time I get back to Hawaii—he’s based in Hawaii—we make it a priority to [get] in the ocean, usually as quickly as possible after I get off the plane,” she says. “We get out for a six o’clock in the morning surf and have that time without technology and the noise of life… Re-centering, replenishing. It makes everything better. Starting off the day that way and it’s just spending that time in nature… it’s a really powerful thing.”
Gabbard was previously married to Eduardo Tamayo (his surname appears on her uniform in some photos); she’s said her time away in the military strained their union to the breaking point. She described it the experience as difficult, “but unfortunately, not an uncommon story for people who go through being separated for nearly two years,” she told Vogue.
A Bumpy Start
Gabbard’s path to the Oval Office could also be difficult. She’s up against candidates—including Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York—with better name recognition. Americans tend to choose their presidents from the ranks of governors and senators, not House members; and aside from President Obama, they have all hailed from the lower 48. Some in the party doubt she can go the distance. Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor who ran for president and once lead the DNC, recently said he sees most of the Democrats whose names are being floated as potential nominees as qualified for the job — with one exception: Gabbard. “I don’t think she knows what she’s doing,” he told CNN, in part because of her 2017 meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and controversial positions she once held on LGBTQ issues.
Gabbard disclosed that she had met with Assad, who is considered a war criminal by the United States, after the fact in an interview with CNN. Asked about the meeting by Glamour, she said, in part, “As a veteran, I know the cost of war, and the need to secure our country. If we are serious about peace and our national security, we must be willing to meet with not just our friends, but adversaries and potential adversaries as well. Otherwise, the only alternative is more war, more suffering, more lives lost.”
In the early 2000s, she opposed same-sex marriage, and when she ran for state office, as CNN reported, she emphasized her work with an anti-marriage equality political action committee run by her dad. Her entry into the 2020 arena quickly led to the resurrection of her anti-gay comments, and she’s moved to apologize and explain how she’s evolved on these issues.
“In my past, I said and believed things that were wrong, and worse, hurtful to the LGBTQ community and their loved ones,” she told Glamour. “Many years ago, I apologized for my words and, more importantly, the negative impact that they had. I remain deeply sorry for having said them. My views have changed significantly since then, and my record over the last six years in Congress reflects what is in my heart: A strong and ongoing commitment to fight for LGBTQ rights.” While in Congress, Gabbard has supported legislation prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation in housing, employment, and education, and has publicly opposed banning transgender people from the military.
Gabbard says her time in the military was critical to her change of heart. “I served shoulder to shoulder with people who became some of my best friends—gay, straight, and trans—people I was willing to give my life for, and them for me,” she says. “Through both of my Middle East deployments, I saw and experienced firsthand how dangerous it is when government attempts to act as a moral arbiter for their people—telling them who they can and cannot love, what they must do with their bodies, what kind of clothes to wear, or how to worship—or face punishment for not complying. I realized just how dangerous it can be to allow our government to dictate or get involved in the most personal parts of our lives—telling us who we can and cannot marry, or dictating to a woman what she must do with her body.”
Gabbard is far from the first presidential hopeful to defend a shift in her views on such social wedge issues over time—neither Democrats Obama nor Clinton initially supported gay marriage; on the GOP side, Mitt Romney went from pro-choice to opposing abortion after what he called a personal epiphany. How it will affect her nascent campaign remains to be seen.
Her Plan for the Win
Gabbard knows she can’t rely on being the most experienced lawmaker in the game, the most well-known, the best financed, or the least controversial. So why does she think she can win over voters? “I’ve talked to people who voted for Donald Trump, and I’ve listened to them,” she says. “And there’s not enough of that listening going on. And look, there are people who are racist and who are bigots and that’s not who I’m talking about. … There are people who have lost their jobs because of destructive trade deals of the past and whose fear and insecurity not just comes from the loss of that job, but the loss of the pride and the security that comes from maybe working in a trade or an industry that their father and their grandfather had worked in before, and [who] don’t feel represented.”
The feeling of being forgotten or unchampioned, isn’t a partisan thing, Gabbard says: “That’s where I see is there’s great opportunity… There’s a great hunger from people who want somebody to fight for them and someone to care for them, and not feel like they’ve been left behind.”
Her military experience is also playing a key role in shaping her platform. On international affairs, Gabbard has spoken extensively about getting the U.S. out of the role of global cop, including pulling military support in the Middle East: “We should end our all U.S. military support for Saudi Arabia in this genocidal war that’s being waged in Yemen,” she says—a stance that gives her a chance to lay into the president.
“We see Donald Trump talking about how he doesn’t want to risk a $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia and therefore, he’s willing to, whatever it is, turn a blind eye. He doesn’t want to break this ‘alliance’ with Saudi Arabia,” she says. “He’s an example of someone who’s a businessman without a conscience and who is essentially willing to ‘make the deal’ no matter the cost of the consequence.”
At home, she mentions a wide range of issues she’d put at the forefront of domestic policy—first and foremost using the money the U.S. spends on military action overseas and to deal with problems here: “whether they be infrastructure or health care, education, housing—the things that people are focused on in their everyday lives.”
Gabbard speaks of criminal justice reform, protecting the environment, improving health care for veterans, and making headway on combating the opioid crisis. She also supports the legalization of marijuana: “In many states where they have legalized either medicinal marijuana or full legalization… [we’ve] seen a direct correlation in reduction of opioid-related deaths and opioid addiction,” she says.
Big picture, Gabbard sees the fabric of the nation as frayed or tattered, if not torn, by the exploitation of “bigotry and divisiveness for political gain” by those in power.
“This is the threat in our country today,” she says. “This is what is so dangerous for us as United States of America and for our future. And this is what must be addressed, and the only way that we can address this is to combat this hatred and this darkness with the most powerful force of love and what we in Hawaii call ‘aloha’.”
“You know, unfortunately, too often people mistake love with weakness or being passive, but the fact is there is no force more powerful than love,” she says. “And we look to examples like Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, who were facing such dark and divisive times and challenges and who chose to fight back and defeat those forces of darkness with their own message [and] leading with love and aloha.”
How much love, how much aloha, will voters show Tulsi Gabbard in the battle of Election 2020? She’ll soon find out.
Celeste Katz covers politics and elections. She’s @CelesteKatzNYC on Twitter and reachable at CelesteKatz@protonmail.com.
One of the biggest trends from the last few years wasn’t a type of hemline or a specific color, but rather a marked change in the way shoppers acquire their clothes. Increasingly, people aren’t buying, they’re renting.
Rent the Runway (with its “unlimited” monthly service) and Stitch Fix (itself a $3 billion business) are the Goliaths paving the way. Jennifer Hyman, co-founder of Rent the Runway, frequently points out how the American woman buys sixty-eight items of clothing year, some of which they never end up wearing. (According to the company, the subscription part of its business has grown 150 percent year over year since it launched in 2016.)
“Social media has created an atmosphere in which, yeah, you could wear the same thing twice, but you’d rather not,” Rachel Saunders, strategy director of retail strategy firm Cassandra, tells Glamour. “So how do you do that without spending a fortune? It’s all contributed to this idea that it’s okay to share clothes with strangers.”
Allied Market Research estimates the clothing rental market will reach $1.856 billion in global value by 2023, with more and more players in the game, like Le Tote and Gwynnie Bee. Naturally, individual brands—ones you’d normally shop at their stand-alone stores or at a mall—now want a piece of that pie, especially as brick-and-mortar shopping continues to decline.
Classic workwear purveyor Ann Taylor, fashion-forward brand Vince, and even trend-focused label Express have all launched subscription services over the last few months that allow shoppers to test a curated selection of pieces at home before either buying their favorites and sending back the rest (and then being replenished with different options.) Many of these ventures are being managed by the same company: New York-based CaaStle, which seems to have a lock on the back-end management of fashion subscriptions, at least for now.
This new development in fashion subscription boxes, cutting out the third party, begs a lot of questions for shoppers. Are these services really worth it when weighed against buying clothes outright? How easy is the rental process, really? How good is the selection? And does this mean the end of shopping as we know it?
We weighed five of the big brand options (all of which, coincidentally, are being managed CaaStle) to see how they stack up, what’s worth it, and what’s not. These might be early adopters, but judging by where the industry is growing, it’s likely you’ll see even more of your favorites jump into this space over the course of 2019.
PHOTO: Courtesy of Vince
Known for its minimal but still fashion-forward pieces, Vince enters the subscription game with Vince Unfold. To get started you create a virtual closet with at least ten items (though, it’s recommended that you add over 24), from which the brand creates your first box. Each shipment comes with four pieces. When you’re done with it, you send it back and get four new ones in a brand-new box.
The biggest difference between Vince Unfold and other brand-specific subscription boxes comes down to one thing: inventory. Vince is much more high-end than other single labels dipping their toes in this market, with most pieces featuring three-figure price tags—think silk tank dresses ($345), shaggy bear coats ($695), and oversized cashmere cardigans ($495.)
Price: $160 a month. You can exchange your four-item box an unlimited number of times, but you must return your whole box to do so. If you want to keep a piece that you’re renting, you can purchase it at a discount, between 20 and 60 percent off.
Pros: Vince clothes are gorgeous and luxurious, which means that every single item that comes in your box can easily be mixed and matched with whatever’s in your wardrobe. Additionally, the selection of products is pretty vast. You’ll get tons of mileage out of these clothes.
Cons: The price point is high, especially when you weigh it against Rent the Runway’s unlimited offering (which has Vince on its roster.) Also, you can’t return pieces individually, only as a whole box; and you don’t pick what you’re getting in each shipment.
TL; DR: While this subscription still makes sense from a cost-benefit standpoint if you’re a big fan of Vince, the fine print could be improved. Try it here.
PHOTO: Courtesy of Ann Taylor.
Infinite Style by Ann Taylor lets you rent three pieces from Ann Taylor (excluding Loft and Lou & Grey) at once. You have to select a minimum of eight pieces to add to a queue. It takes about three days to process and another two days to ship; you find out exactly which items from your edit are being shipped to you in an e-mail with tracking information for your package.
Where Ann Taylor’s service really shines is in its abundance of workwear. At the moment, you can rent pieces like houndstooth ankle pants (which retail for $98), a tweed sheath dress ($159), and a sequin fringe jacket ($129.)
Price: $95 a month. You can return the complete box for a new one as many times as you’d like throughout the month.
Pros: This is one of the best subscription box options out there if you need a big rotating closet of professional clothing. Plus, you get the option of buying clothes you’ve already rented for 60 to 70 percent off.
Cons: Given the higher price tag compared to comparable services, you have to really love the Ann Taylor look. You also have to return a complete box in order to get sent new product.
TL; DR: This is a solid solution to the what-to-wear-to-wear problem, with some casual attire and cocktail looks thrown in, too. Try it here.
PHOTO: Courtesy of Express.
Called the Express Style Trial, this service allows shoppers to rent three items from the brand at a time for $69.95 a month. There’s a pretty big range of merchandise to choose from, all of which appears to be current season—a striped jumpsuit (which retails for $79.90), a faux-leather-trimmed shift dress (also $79.90), and a satin maxi dress ($88.)
“We see Style Trial as an complement to our e-commerce and store business, allowing our customers to engage with fashion and experiment with new styles and trends that she may not otherwise invest in,” Jim Hilt, Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Experience Officer at Express, tells Glamour. “It provides our customer with easy access to the latest trends, as well as an ongoing rotation of staple pieces at a fraction of the prices.”
To begin renting, you have to add at least eight items to a virtual closet (though it’s recommended that you add around 20.) From that selection, Express creates a box of three pieces to send to you. You can prioritize what you want, through a feature that promises “we’ll try to ship those first.” But once you’re done with those first three, you can ship everything back, and Express will dispatch a box with new product. You can do this as many times as you want. Per Express’ estimates, a super-active user could have 12 different pieces a month (or four boxes); an average user, meanwhile, would probably have about nine (or three boxes.)
Price: $69.95 a month. You can cancel the subscription at any time, and you can return your boxes to exchange for new items as frequently as you like.
Pros: The price, definitely—if you’re already a big fan of Express, you can maximize the amount of returns that you do throughout the month to get the most product.
Cons: The work-appropriate options are on the limited side (in general, the offerings are much better suited for casual wear), if you need to replenish that part of your wardrobe, specifically. Because of the way that Express builds its subscription boxes, you don’t select the exact items that end up in your shipment—rather, the brand picks from which of your pre-selected favorites are available. You also can’t cancel your subscription directly online, only over the phone.
TL; DR: If you are already a big Express shopper, the cost benefit of this is pretty great. Try it here.
PHOTO: Courtesy of Rebecca Taylor.
Rebecca Taylor’s foray into subscription boxes, RNTD, is comparable to Rent the Runway Unlimited in price—Both are $159 a month. The brand grants you access to a rotating closet with four items at any given time; you must add at least 10 pieces to a queue, from which Rebecca Taylor then puts together your shipment.
“The pricing was meant to be realistic and attainable for our customer,” says Janice Sullivan, President of Rebecca Taylor. In other words: It’s hoping this service opens Rebecca Taylor up to a new shopper who otherwise couldn’t afford to constantly and consistently buy its pieces. And the “new arrivals” section has a solid mix of Rebecca Taylor’s signature dresses as well as some of its more trend-forward garments: a silk embroidered ruffle dress ($395), high-waisted plaid pants ($395), and a laminated navy trench coat ($1,295.)
“I think consumers value options, the option to rent, to own, to lend, to resell—as a brand you want to move with her and be there on every level that makes sense,” Sullivan adds.
Price: $159 a month. You get four pieces per shipment, and you can send the box back for new items as often as you’d like.
Pros: It’s hard to not love Rebecca Taylor. And while a closet full of its pieces has long been out of reach for most shoppers, it’s suddenly much more accessible.
Cons: Like with Vince, you can’t return individual pieces to get new ones—only the full shipment. That’s really what sets it apart from Rent the Runway Unlimited, which carries Rebecca Taylor.
TL; DR: You’d have a pretty dreamy rotating wardrobe. You just have to love or let go of everything you get as a bundle. Try it here.
PHOTO: Courtesy of New York & Co.
New York & Co.’s NY&Company Closet is one of the most affordable subscription boxes out there, charging $49.95 a month for three items at a time from the brand—return them all, and receive a new selection in the mail.
This offering has a great mix of both work and weekend clothes, making it one of the most versatile single-brand subscription boxes. That being said, it’s one brand—so you have to like the aesthetic to begin with. On offer are pieces like a leopard sweater dress ($74.95), a red striped blazer ($79.95), and houndstooth wide leg pants ($79.95.)
Price: $49.95 a month. You get three items at a time; you can return the full box for new product as many times as you like.
Pros: You definitely get a lot of bang for your buck with this one.
Cons: The unpredictability of not getting to choose exactly what comes in your shipment isn’t ideal.
TL; DR: This is a great value subscription service for someone who wants to test-drive this method of shopping. Try it here.
Kate Middleton playfully called out her husband Prince William at an event this week for an all-too-relatable habit: eating pizza on the sofa.
Before you say, “What’s so wrong with that?” think about the context for a second. Prince William and Kate Middleton are royals, which means they probably have some fancy couches—like, really fancy ones with hand-sewn fabric and blocks of gold stuffed in the cushions. Queen Elizabeth II probably has some of her jewels hidden in these couches, too—I don’t know. What I do know, though, is the couches are expensive. Your futon from Wayfair can handle a Domino’s pizza box; Middleton’s couch, which the queen could potentially nap on, can’t.
And Middleton appropriately dragged Prince William for this. The incident happened in Cyprus, where the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were visiting military families who will be away from home this Christmas. At the Oasis recreation center, which Middleton and Prince William helped open, the couple spotted some yellow couches in the corner. “Keep the pizza off the sofas,” Prince William said, according to People. Middleton quickly agreed: “You’re a nightmare with that,” she said.
This isn’t the only royal habit that’s been exposed in the past few weeks. Prince Harry recently confessed that Meghan Markle doesn’t understand his habit of keeping all the lights off in their home except the ones they need. “My wife certainly goes, ‘Well, why turn the lights off? It’s dark,'” Prince Harry said in a recent documentary “I go, ‘We only need one light, we don’t need, like, six,’ and all of a sudden, it becomes a habit.”
Ariana Grande’s music video is full of iconic references, including nods to some of the best rom-coms of the early aughts—but it also paid written homage to her exes, Big Sean, Ricky Alvarez and Pete Davidson, who each got a page in Ariana’s Mean Girls-inspired Burn Book. But there was something that, at first, seemed quite small—until you picked up on it: Namely, um, where was Mac Miller’s page?
Miller died of an overdose in September, several weeks before Grande and Davidson broke up. Miller and Grande had split up in May after almost two years of dating, so the news understandably hit her hard. Grande still seems to be working through his death and rather than give him a page in her Burn Book, she paid tribute to their relationship in a different way—and we’ve all just caught it now.
As Elle noted on Friday, a fan tweeted on Thanksgiving, expressing her excitement for the upcoming video: “when she flips through the thank u next burn book and pics of her with sean, ricky, pete & mac arrive……………. we had to fucking stan”
Grande’s response revealed that he wasn’t in the book—he was somewhere else in the video: “M ain’t in the book he next to my bed.”
Grande sings Miller’s verse, looking up—”Wish I could say thank you to Malcolm, ’cause he was an angel”—and then closes the book, right around the one-minute mark in the video. Behind her on the nightstand are several framed photos are. It seems likely that he’s in one of the photos, though you can’t quite see it.
The stakes for coming up with a good (but easy) Halloween costume are pretty high. Sure, you can buy one in a bag at your local party store—but those are never the ones you remember or talk about for years after. You want to be clever and topical, but familiar and recognizable; you want to be creative, but not go to an extreme where you need to spend a lot of time and money. The last year has given us a lot of material, from Royal Wedding to beloved Netflix movies. And with a discerning eye, you can piece together pretty much any costume you’ve been dreaming up from your local mall or Amazon cart.
You might not be on Heidi Klum‘s level, but the easy Halloween costumes we’ve put together ahead will definitely get you on the “best-dressed” list. Put down the animal ears and consider our alternatives…
Meghan Markle at the Royal Wedding
PHOTO: Getty/Courtesy of brands.
Everlane The Cotton Boatneck Tee, $20, Everlane; WAYF Brady Satin Midi Skirt, $41.40, Nordstrom; Vieste Rose Tiara, $37, JC Penney; KLOUD City White Double Ribbon Edge Center Cascade Bridal Wedding Veil, $6.40, Amazon; Jewel Candy Princess Meghan Ring, $40, Jewel Candy
C’mon, you knew this was coming: Meghan Markle‘s wedding to Prince Harry was one of the most highly-anticipated events of the year—and both of her custom wedding dresses have inspired many a copy-cat in the months since. So why not make like the Duchess of Sussex this Halloween with a boatneck top and fitted skirt, to mimic the silhouette of her Givenchy Haute Couture ceremony dress, and throw on a tiara and veil? Make the costume feel extra on-the-nose with a faux engagement ring inspired by Markle’s. (If you’re really committed, you can get one straight from Buckingham Palace.)
Beychella 2018
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Beyoncé Crest Tee, $40, Beyoncé; H&M Short Hooded Sweatshirt, $17.99, H&M; GAP Mid Rise 3″ Denim Shorts With Distressed Detailing, $20.99, GAP; Pleaser Women’s Queen100/Spu Ankle Bootie, $61.96, Amazon
Another major event in the highlight reel of 2018: Beychella. For two consecutive weekends, Beyoncé dominated the Coachella stage with a performance that took over social media. Her outfits, co-designed by Balmain, were obviously epic. She also released official merch, which makes it all the easier to pay tribute to Beychella appropriately: Start with one of her official T-shirts, then add distressed short-shorts, a cropped hoodie, and sparkle-fringed boots. Now, onto the choreo…
The promo tour for Paul Feig’s A Simple Favor had Blake Lively on a suit kick, inspired by her character, Emily (and by Feig a little, too.) It’s a very specific look, but one that’s super easy to shop, thanks to the suiting trend. Try your hand at Emily’s tux-inspired ensemble by finding a fitted black blazer and trouser set, a polished white button-down, and a silky bow tie. Stay on-theme by carrying a martini glass all night; you can even sip on her signature drink, using gin made by Lively’s husband, Ryan Reynolds.
Lara Jean Covey of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
PHOTO: Netflix/Courtesy of brands.
& Other Stories Fitted Mock Neck Top, $29, & Other Stories; Uniqlo Women Corduroy Front-Button High-Waist Mini Skirt, $29.90, Uniqlo; Converse Chuck Taylor All-Star Core Hi, $54.99, Zappos; Urban Outfitters Velvet Hair Scrunchie Set, $12, Urban Outfitters; AmazonBasics A9 Invitation Envelope, $7.99, Amazon
There are so many reasons why we love Lara Jean Covey from To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, and her fashion ranks high among them. (Buying combat boots on Etsy? C’mon, too cool.) What’s cool about her style is that it feels cool but attainable. Odds are you shop at the same places—you might even have some of her staples in your closet already. Stick to some of the classic high-school pieces (a corduroy A-line mini skirt, high-top sneakers) and pepper in some more obvious references to the movie: an envelope representing the letters, a scrunchie… Extra points if you find a Peter Kavinsky.
Edna Mode of The Incredibles
PHOTO: Disney/Courtesy of brands.
Disney Edna Mode Wig and Eyeglasses Set For Adults, $19.95, Disney; Zara Tunic With Contrasting Belt, $69.90, Zara; Universal Thread Women’s Everly Round Toe Ballet Flats, $12.99, Target; Boden Two Pack 90D Tights, $35, Boden
We waited a decade to get more fashion insight from Edna Mode, and the Incredibles sequel delivered—now, it’s time to dust off our original costume from way back when, and maybe give it a few updates: Start with the wig and glasses (the designer’s signatures), and build an outfit that’s muted, minimalist, and a wee bit dramatic. Depending on what kind of crowd you’re running with, you could also say you’re dressed as Rei Kawakubo—or, keep the wig, and go as Dr. Fujita from Maniac.
Josie McCoy of Riverdale
PHOTO: CW/Courtesy of brands.
Spirit Halloween Leopard Ear Headband, $6.99, Spirit Halloween; Topshop Leopard Print Swimsuit, $60, Topshop; Bershka Denim Skirt, $29.90, Bershka; Technical Graffiti Drop The Mic Microphone, $19.95, Amazon; Forever21 Ring Faux Leather Choker, $1.99, Forever21
We predict running into many Riverdale residents far from home this Halloween. (The show is pretty much made for this.) While the Main Four tend to get the most play, some of the best costume potential comes from its supporting characters—there’s of course, queen Cheryl Blossom, and also Josie McCoy, eternal leopard-print muse. To channel the leader of the Pussycats, find an anchor item with an all-over leopard pattern (like a bodysuit) to build your outfit around. The rest of the pieces can be more low-key, like a denim skirt and a leather choker. Just don’t forget the cat ears.
Midge Maisel of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
PHOTO: Amazon/Courtesy of brands.
Eliza J. Faux Wrap Ponte Sheath Dress, $82.80, Nordstrom; Boohoo Belted Waterfall Coat, $20, Boohoo; ZaZa Bridal 19.5″ Long Shiny Stretch Satin Dress Gloves, $11.99, Amazon; Clothink Women 100% Wool French Beret, $12.99, Amazon; Charles & Keith Classic Push-Lock Bag, $59, Charles & Keith
While you wait for Amazon to confirm the premiere date of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel season two, channel the titular character with a 1950’s-housewife-turned-standup-comic-inspired ensemble. Midge loved her color coordination and smart accessorizing, so make sure to plan accordingly—finding complementary shades of pink and burgundy, scouring Amazon for a beret and satin-look gloves… Carry around a small notebook in your top-handle purse where you can write your material into, for added effect.
