Spooky Swim Style Guide: What We’re Wearing to the Water This Summer
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Spooky Swim Style Guide: What We’re Wearing to the Water This Summer

Five ways to approach swim when black still makes the most sense

By: The Lace Ledger Staff

Sunshine and unrelenting heat tends to come with certain expectations. Bright colours. Less fabric. A general sense that you’re meant to look like you’re enjoying yourself. And that’s one option.

For those eagerly awaiting an alternate, we’ve got you. Whether you’re poolside, at the beach, or by the lake, consider this a set of styled suggestions designed to seamlessly supplement a dark feminine wardrobe.

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35 Dark Feminine Fragrances: The Collector’s Guide
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35 Dark Feminine Fragrances: The Collector’s Guide

Curating a perfume cabinet stocked with a haunted selection of elegant scents

By: The Lace Ledger Staff

A well-chosen perfume behaves like a small portal. One mist alters the atmosphere. The room remains the same, yet something shifts. Suddenly the evening carries the suggestion of somewhere else. A garden after midnight. Salt wind from distant water. The memory of old houses lined with books.

The fragrances in this cabinet operate exactly this way. Each one offers a different passage into the world it evokes.

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