After a Slow Start, Smooth Skating

Sarah Casey Botwinick and Jason Gabriel Pollack were undergraduates at Lehigh University at the same time, though they didn’t meet until post-college, in February 2020, on the dating app Hinge. At first, “it was slow going,” Mr. Pollack said. “It took her a week to answer my messages. I would answer immediately.” “It’s Hinge,” Ms.…

The Life-Changing Magic of a Little Black Dress

DAN JACKSONDress, Gucci. Panty, Deborah Marquit. Ring, Solange Ltd. Slingbacks, Michael Kors Collection. In honor of our September issue, ELLE is partnering with Substack, enlisting some of the platform’s most followed fashion writers to write essays accompanying our fall fashion shoots. Today’s edition features Laurel Pantin, author of the Earl Earl newsletter. My first real…