How to dress like a wealthy recluse: 5 essential items to mourn summer’s end in style
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Summer’s coming to an unwelcome end, and as they say, the time is right... for hiding in your home and never ever going into the streets. Not for dancing, not for ice cream, not for nothin’. Is there anything more glamourous than a recluse? Sure some of them might be suffering from agoraphobia, or working on a rapidly growing collection of jars of their own pee, or watching their stately home crumble around them, but can we fault the fashion? We cannot. Here’s how to spend the waning days of summer dressed like a wealthy recluse—take these outfits anywhere you’d like, although they work best when surrounded by cats and a thick patina of nostalgia for your own wasted youth. Happy dressing!
Recluse fashion
A Vibrant Caftan: A recluse classic. Age gracefully under yards and yards of fabric in a pattern that says, “I know how to use vermouth.” The caftan has been the summer outfit of choice for fabulous old ladies, divas of the stage and screen, and divorcees from Palm Springs since its inception at a key party in 1962. God bless the caftan. Emilio Pucci printed silk-charmeuse caftan ($1,705, net-a-porter.com)