A short note on style

Apropos of nothing, a little Monday evening ramble about elegance

In which I see the most stylist and effortless woman I’ve ever had the fortune to observe…

I was thinking today about something I read in Farrah Storr’s latest Substack post. An eminently stylish woman herself, Farrah was writing about capsule wardrobes, or rather, capsule packing. She went to Paris recently, and broke down what she packed and what she wore. She talked a lot about style and described her definition of great style as being ‘well worn’ – a certain comfort or unselfconscious sensibility in what one wears.

Instead of badly paraphrasing, I’ve no choice really but to share with you the two paragraphs that stuck with me; I hope Farrah won’t mind: