Paris Coat Weather

You buy slowly and then wear the thing to death, which is the only luxury habit that saves money. Grey wool, a scarf that stays on indoors, shoes resoled twice by a man who knows your left foot is the bigger one. Damp is your real climate rather than cold, and you dress against water instead of temperature.

Here is the sentence you will reread: your restraint has calcified. You have not bought a colour since 2021 and you call that discipline, while everyone who has had dinner with you calls it the same coat. There is a version of your taste with one loud thing in it, and it is better than this one.

The scarf is not a personality. It is a good start.