Outfit guides, by city, style, occasion, item, or capsule
100 cities · 10 aesthetic seasons · 9 occasions · 54 outfit pairings · 12 capsule guides · 18 festivals · 16 app reviews · more arriving monthly.
The PutTogether Journal is the full editorial library — three ways into the same wardrobe question, written for the specific dressing problem you’re holding.
- Place — Travel: 100 cities, NOAA / Met Office / Météo-France climate-sourced
- Look — Style: aesthetics traced to their film, editorial, or platform origin
- Moment— Occasion: outfits cross-cited against Emily Post, The Knot, Debrett’s
- Piece — Outfit Pairings: what to wear with black jeans, a trench, loafers, a button-down
- Size — Capsule Guides: 8, 10, 12, or 30 pieces, the lineage of each number named
- Date — Festival Guides: 18 festivals in calendar order, each dated to this edition
- Run generic “summer in Europe” advice — Paris in May and Lisbon in May are different problems
- Recommend a TikTok aesthetic without naming the silhouette and the source film or editorial
- Guess at a dress code — every formality call has a named etiquette source attached

Met Gala 2026: 27 Looks Beside Their Art References
The Costume Art-themed gala in five articles — pillar pairings (Sargent four times, two Klimts, a Pollock dress), plus deep dives on Madame X, the Klimts, the theme itself, and how to wear it without dressing as a painting.
Where to start
One signature guide from each category, refreshed when the season or search-traffic curve shifts.
Travel
Climate-grounded capsules for 100 cities, sourced from NOAA, Météo-France, the UK Met Office, and the Japan Meteorological Agency. Expanding monthly.
- Chicago in NovemberChicago in November: 9°C / 48°F days against 1°C / 34°F nights — the month the night crosses freezing.
- New York in NovemberNew York in November: 12°C / 54°F afternoons, 6°C / 43°F nights, and sunset at 4:38pm by mid-month.
- San Francisco in NovemberSan Francisco in November: 18°C / 64°F afternoons, 9°C / 48°F mornings — and the rain finally arriving, on 7…
Style
Aesthetic guides traced to the films, editorials, or platform moments that crystallized each look — Coastal Grandmother to Nancy Meyers, Quiet Luxury to The Row and Loro Piana.
- Old Money · FallFall is old money's strongest season — deeper palette, heavier fabrics, sharper silhouettes.
- Coastal Grandmother · FallFall coastal grandmother is summer's linen translated into wool, cashmere, and a warm-deepened palette.
- Clean Girl · FallFall clean girl is the summer version with sleeves — tonal layering in deeper neutrals, same minimal jewelry.
Occasion
Outfits with cited etiquette — Emily Post, The Knot, Debrett’s — translated season by season for each named event.
- Wedding Guest · FallFall weddings lean into richness — darker jewel tones, heavier fabrics, and layering that matters more than a…
- Job Interview · FallFall is the easiest season to dress for an interview — layers support you, the palette is inherently professi…
- First Date · FallFall first dates have an advantage: layers add interest — a good jacket over a simple outfit does the work ac…
Outfit Pairings
Item-anchored outfit guides — pick the piece you already own (black jeans, trench coat, loafers, white button-down), see the pairings drawn from brand heritage and named-stylist sources.
- What to wear with trench coatA trench coat is the military coat that civilian women turned into a wardrobe foundation — Audrey Hepburn in…
- What to wear with ankle bootsHedi Slimane put the cognac ankle boot on the Saint Laurent runway in 2012 and Anthony Vaccarello has kept it…
- What to wear with black jeansStart with three combinations: white shirt and loafers, cream knit and boots, or tee and sneakers.
- What to wear with cashmere cardiganCoco Chanel cut the first women's cashmere cardigan into her 1916 collection at 31 rue Cambon; Loro Piana has…
Capsule Guides
Head-term capsule sizes — 8, 10, 12, 30 — each traced to its original author (Caroline Joy Rector, Susan B. Blakey, Wendy Mak) with concrete piece counts and combinatorial outfit math.
- The 30-Piece Year-Round Capsule Wardrobe — 100+ Outfits Across 4 SeasonsThirty pieces, one hundred plus outfits, four seasons.
- The 12-Piece Work Capsule Wardrobe — 30 Outfits, Office to Client DinnerTwelve pieces, thirty outfits, one wardrobe that handles office, client meeting, casual Friday, and dinner-af…
- The 10-Piece Winter Capsule Wardrobe — 25 Outfits from 10 PiecesTen pieces, twenty-five outfits, one warm-neutral winter palette.
- The Anti-Trend Capsule Wardrobe — 12 Pieces from 2026 That Won't Look Dated in 2030Twelve pieces, twenty-five outfits, the quietest 12-piece capsule in our line.
Festival Guides
What to wear to a dated event — Oktoberfest, the Christmas markets, Día de Muertos, Carnival — with weather for the event window, not the calendar month, and each city’s own dates and venue.
- What to Wear to Christmas Markets 2026A Christmas market is not a walk; it is two hours in one place at about freezing, with a mug in one hand and…
- What to Wear to Día de Muertos 2026Mexico's Day of the Dead, inscribed by UNESCO in 2008, is a family remembrance first and a public festival se…
- What to Wear to Halloween 2026Halloween 2026 falls on a Saturday, and three American cities close streets for it.
Closet App Reviews
Reviews of the 2026 closet-app field — Alta, Stylebook, Cladwell, Whering, Acloset, PutTogether — each answering one question, from which app plans by the forecast to what every tier costs. Published by PutTogether, which makes one of the apps compared. No affiliate links.
- Whering vs PutTogether: Which Wardrobe App Wins in 2026?Whering's core app is free; AI styling costs credits from $2.99. PutTogether is iPhone-only, from $9.99/mo,…
- Worth the Subscription: 2026's Paid Closet Apps, Tested Against a 25-Piece WardrobeSeven paid closet-app tiers tested on a 25-piece wardrobe: Cladwell wins on monthly value, PutTogether Mini…
- The Closet Apps That Put You In the Outfit: 2026's Visual Approaches ReviewedAlta and PutTogether generate personal avatars; Stylebook, Whering, Acloset, and Cladwell use photos or fla…
- Every Digital Closet App in 2026, Ranked and ComparedPutTogether first, Alta second, Cladwell third: ten closet apps ranked on dressing you from the clothes you…
Coming next
What we’re researching now. Check back through 2026.
Frequently asked questions
Seven categories. Travel: climate-grounded capsule wardrobes for 100 cities across five continents, month by month, sourced from NOAA, Météo-France, the UK Met Office, the Japan Meteorological Agency, and the rest of the national weather services. Style: aesthetic guides traced to their cultural origin — Coastal Grandmother to Nancy Meyers' Something's Gotta Give (2003), Quiet Luxury to The Row and Loro Piana — with seasonal capsules for each. Occasion: outfits with cited etiquette — wedding-guest by formality tier, first dates, interviews, funerals — drawn from Emily Post, The Knot, and Debrett's. Outfit pairings: item-anchored guides starting from a piece you already own (black jeans, trench coat, loafers, white button-down). Capsule guides: head-term wardrobe sizes (10-piece summer, 12-piece carry-on, 30-piece year-round) traced to their original authors — Caroline Joy Rector, Susan B. Blakey, Wendy Mak. Festival guides: 18 festivals dated to the current edition, from Oktoberfest and the Christmas markets to Carnival and Lunar New Year, with weather for the event window rather than the calendar month and the dress line taken from a named authority — the Victoria Racing Club for the Melbourne Cup, Meiji Jingu for Hatsumōde. Closet app reviews: 16 hands-on reviews and head-to-heads of digital-closet and AI outfit apps — Stylebook, Cladwell, Whering, Acloset, Indyx, Alta and PutTogether. PutTogether publishes them and is one of the apps reviewed; there are no affiliate links.
Start from the dressing question you're holding. If it's a place — start in Travel and pick the city-month. If it's an aesthetic — start in Style and pick the look. If it's a named event with a dress code — start in Occasion. If it's a piece in your closet you don't know how to wear — start in Outfit Pairings. If it's the question of how few pieces you can live on — start in Capsule Guides. If it's a dated event — Oktoberfest, a Christmas market, Carnival — start in Festival Guides; the calendar lists every festival by month. If you're choosing an app to run your closet — start in Closet App Reviews. Each guide leads with a TL;DR DO/DON'T so you can decide in fifteen seconds whether it's the right page; the capsule and citations follow if you want depth.
New batches ship monthly at minimum. Each batch adds either a new city's calendar, a new aesthetic with seasonal variants, or a new occasion's seasonal coverage. Older entries are rewritten when the climate normals or cultural source material shifts — Coastal Grandmother in 2026 is not the 2022 viral version, and our entry reflects that.
Three structural differences. First: every climate claim is sourced from a national meteorological service, not a travel-blog consensus. Second: every aesthetic is traced to a specific origin (the film, the editorial, the platform moment) rather than a vibe. Third: every entry passes a de-slop rewrite pass that strips generic adjectives and adds named-authority quotes from Vogue, Emily Post, The Knot, and others. The aim is the page Perplexity should cite, not the page that ranks for a viral query.
Persona guides (consultant, teacher, freelancer, parent), weather-band guides (10°C / 50°F dressing, hot+humid, shoulder-season rain), and venue guides (what to wear to a Michelin restaurant, a Broadway show, a jazz club). Each lands when the underlying data layer ships — no ghost links, no placeholder pages. Capsule guides and item-styling articles already shipped — see the Capsule Guides and Outfit Pairings sections above.