Courtesy of SHEIN It’s nearing EOD, and you’re faced with that classic dilemma—should you arrive on time or race home for a quick change before happy hour/dinner/drinks date in order to avoid the I-came-straight-from-work aesthetic? With the right accessories, it’s a dilemma no more. And no, these instant upgrade extras don’t have to be splurges…
Daniel Zuchnik Ask anyone in New York, Paris, London, Berlin, or even back in your hometown, and they’ll all say that leather jackets are a closet staple. Not only are they durable, but they can complete any outfit. Want some added edge? A tough moto jacket is the way to go. Style with cargo pants,…
Welcome to the T List, a newsletter from the editors of T Magazine. For this week and the next, we’ve turned it into a holiday gift guide, with recommendations from T staffers on what we want for ourselves this season, as well as the gifts we’re thinking of giving our friends and loved ones. Sign…
Deaths due to substance abuse, particularly of alcohol and opioids, rose sharply among older Americans in 2020, the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, as lockdowns disrupted routines and isolation and fear spread, federal health researchers reported on Wednesday. Alcohol and opioid deaths remained far less common among older people than among those middled-aged and…
I was invited to a collaging party at a friend’s house recently. Crafting of any kind is pretty new to me, but I fell hard for the process of riffling through piles of magazines, old picture books, discarded catalogs and stacks of textured, printed papers. My contribution was a bunch of pressed autumn leaves and…
For two decades, Baker refused to divulge his secret. He finally cracked in 1947 and revealed all to General Mills. (How much he was paid he took to the grave when he died in 1974.) Instead of butter, he used vegetable oil in a batter thick with yolks and folded together with glossy peaks of…
She also gave it to Cassandra Grey, a beauty entrepreneur, who introduced the products at Violet Grey, an influential beauty e-commerce site and store. (Ms. Grey had already gotten a sample from Elizabeth Sulcer, a stylist in Los Angeles.) Ms. Griffith invested in Augustinus Bader, and she continues to fly the flag fervently. Soon Professor…
I was never exactly an unadulterated fan of Alessandro Michele, the recently-no-longer Gucci designer. I often found his collections overwrought and self-indulgent; unedited, like the rambling monologues he would conduct after shows in the guise of a news conference, throwing himself into a thronelike chair in exhaustion. Yet for the last week, ever since the…
My husband and I own a vacation condominium (with two bedrooms and two bathrooms) that we like to make available to our five adult children. We don’t use it over the holidays, but the kids’ use of it during this period has become contentious. Four are married, one is divorced and they all have children.…
Partying Till Sunrise The ritual builds community with non-Jews too. Shay O’Brien, a Ph.D. student studying sociology at Princeton, attended her first Shabbat dinner at a friend’s home on the Lower East Side at the beginning of November. “It definitely felt more special than a regular dinner,” said Ms. O’Brien, 32. And: “Someone made homemade…