Outfit guides, by city, style, occasion, item, or capsule
100 cities · 9 aesthetic seasons · 9 occasions · 54 outfit pairings · 12 capsule guides · 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
- 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.
- Paris in AprilParis in April: 15°C / 59°F afternoons, 7°C / 45°F mornings, ~8 rain days, 13h 15m of daylight — the Parisian…
- New York in JulyNYC in July: 29°C / 84°F afternoons, 21°C / 70°F mornings, 11 rain days, 268 sunshine hours — humidity makes…
- Paris in JulyParis in July: 26°C / 79°F afternoons, 16°C / 61°F mornings, 7 rain days, 222 sunshine hours — the sunniest m…
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.
- Quiet Luxury · SummerQuiet luxury in summer is Succession restraint translated into warm-weather fabric — fewer pieces, better clo…
- Old Money · SummerOld money in summer is restraint at its most tested — quiet luxury where everyone else reaches for prints.
- Coastal Grandmother · SummerCoastal grandmother in summer = Nancy Meyers' Hamptons translated into warm-weather basics.
Occasion
Outfits with cited etiquette — Emily Post, The Knot, Debrett’s — translated season by season for each named event.
- Wedding Guest · SummerA summer wedding is a test of fabric, restraint, and footwear — heat, outdoor light, and a ceremony you'll wa…
- First Date · SummerA first-date outfit has one job: make you feel like yourself, slightly elevated — not costume, not performanc…
- Job Interview · SummerA summer interview outfit solves two problems at once — professional and comfortable in heat, with a 10°C / 5…
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 black jeansBlack jeans push any outfit one step sharper than blue jeans would — which is why Vogue Paris editors have wo…
- 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 loafersA loafer is the shoe that pulls every outfit one register sharper — it does what a sneaker can't, without com…
- What to wear with white button-downA white button-down is the single shirt that has been the wardrobe foundation for 130 years — Brooks Brothers…
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 10-Piece Summer Capsule Wardrobe — 25 Outfits from 10 PiecesTen pieces, twenty-five outfits, one warm-neutral palette.
- The 12-Piece Carry-On Capsule Wardrobe — Two Weeks, One Bag, 24 OutfitsTwelve pieces, twenty-four outfits, one carry-on.
- 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…
Coming next
What we’re researching now. Check back through 2026.
Frequently asked questions
Five 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.
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. 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.