Outfit guides, by city, style, or occasion
14 cities · 9 aesthetic seasons · 9 occasions · 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: 14 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
- 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
Where to start
One signature guide from each category, refreshed when the season or search-traffic curve shifts.
Travel
Climate-grounded capsules for 14 cities, sourced from NOAA, Météo-France, the UK Met Office, and the Japan Meteorological Agency. Expanding monthly.
- Paris in AprilParis in April: 15°C afternoons, 7°C mornings, ~8 rain days, 13h 15m of daylight — the Parisian cliché at its…
- New York in JulyNYC in July: 29°C afternoons, 21°C mornings, 11 rain days, 268 sunshine hours — humidity makes it feel 35°C+.
- Paris in JulyParis in July: 26°C afternoons, 16°C mornings, 7 rain days, 222 sunshine hours — the sunniest month of the ye…
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 swi…
Coming next
What we’re researching now. Check back through 2026.
Frequently asked questions
Three categories. Travel: climate-grounded capsule wardrobes for 14 cities, month by month, sourced from NOAA, Météo-France, the UK Met Office, and the Japan Meteorological Agency. 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.
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. 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.
Capsule guides (concrete numbers — how many shoes, shirts, coats per wardrobe size), persona guides (consultant, teacher, freelancer, parent), weather-band guides (10°C dressing, hot+humid, shoulder-season rain), and item-styling articles (what to wear with black jeans, a trench, loafers). Each lands when the underlying data layer ships — no ghost links, no placeholder pages.