What we're wearing this October
Cold mornings, warm afternoons — the season is one long layering problem and a handful of pieces solve it.
October here opens near freezing with a coffee on the dock and closes most days in shirtsleeves on an orchard bench. Dressing for both without changing twice is the practical skill of the season, and it comes down to pieces that hand off to each other.
The spine
Build one warm core and let it shed in stages: a knit you're happy in alone, a midi skirt or straight denim under it, and a structured jacket that carries the cold half of the day. When the afternoon warms, the jacket comes off and the outfit underneath was already finished.
Cold dawn on the dock, mild by two — October in the valley is a layering problem, not a shopping one.
— the studio, Kelowna, British Columbia
The read
Keep the palette inside two or three colours and the layers swap without looking stacked longer than they should. A belt skirt over a fine knit reads sharper than it has any right to at this price, and a cinched jacket turns the same pieces toward the formal end of the week.
Boots finish it
Everything in the shop is built to meet ankle boots and stay standing. Nothing in the edit is chasing a trend that expires before this season's pumpkins do.
More from the journal.
- How to measure yourself in four minutesThree numbers, two units, and the four minutes that make every chart in this shop work for you.
- Packing a carry-on in knitsKnit fabric rolls flat, springs back, and never reads as slept-in — a good carry-on is a knit problem.
- A five-piece weekOne dress, one knit, one jacket, one skirt, one set — and how they cover Monday to Sunday.
- How to layer a knit over a dressThe fastest way to take a summer dress into autumn, and the three proportions that always work.
- Matching sets, three waysA set is one outfit you don't have to think about — and two separates when you do.