Stylist Johanna Lager has never quite succeeded at dressing for the right season, often caught between optimism and reality. But in a climate where temperatures rarely stay put, she has begun to rethink the rules altogether. By mixing summer pieces with winter accessories, she finds that getting it slightly wrong might be the most sensible way to get dressed
I have never been particularly good at dressing for the right season. Not in the romantic, editorial sense of “transitional layering”, but in a far less aspirational, slightly chaotic way. I am either underdressed and freezing, or overdressed and overheating. Whenever I try to dress for the weather, whether it is cold or warm, I somehow get it wrong. Add too much, or strip too much away. It becomes a calculation I never quite solve. Worse than algebra ever was.
At some point I started wondering if maybe I was approaching it the wrong way entirely. What if it made more sense to begin somewhere else, and adjust from there. To dress as if it were summer, and then add what I need, rather than trying to solve the sartorial temperature-calculous from the start.
Then I saw a picture from Fendi sping/summer 2024 where gloves were paired with trousers and a ribbed top, styled in a way that felt completely detached from temperature. It stayed with me. They were the sort of simple, close fitting gloves most of us own. The kind that, in theory, only work in winter. But what if I were to keep them in rotation long past the weather thawed? This is how I ended up wearing leather gloves with bermuda shorts and bare skin beneath a blazer.
Photo: Daniele Oberrauch / Gorunway.com
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Photo: Daniele Oberrauch / Gorunway.com