Morph into Fall
In The Magazine’s FASHIONABLE SCIENCE editorial, we look beyond just fashion. We add personalized neuroscience to make you stand out and repair from the inside out. It defines true style with science-backed insight into how to stay balanced.
This article suggests pieces for the transition from summer to fall. Vintage pieces work with the gut-brain axis to regulate the change of season and mental state.
Take the distress out of transition dressing. Really, just out of your mind. Distressed items are unrivaled in their vintage form. Clothing that becomes worn out or is tattered purposely- jeans with strategic rips, anything Comme de Garcons, and your favorite sweatshirt- are hard to come by. Even more difficult to buy.
As we start falling with the leaves, we are also dressing with the superb hand-picked pieces of vintage. Our Editor-in-Chief chose these pieces at Lower East Side’s sustainable luxury boutique Morphew. These looks combine on-trend pieces with personal energy and gut-brain axis resilience.
THE SCIENCE
Transition dressing calls for adapting to quickly changing environments, which lends to our survival instincts. Every piece shown can construct a capsule wardrobe. Choose, rotate, and mix depending on your personal energy shifts and what you need to balance.
On a special note, the images are in the rawest form to take you along the editorial process as the EIC was drawn to each garment. Here are words on a few standouts.
Military School Dropout Military jackets are everywhere right now. Well, on the right people. That’s because they tend to be unfitting on a lot of dressers. A bit too uniform-y, a little too Michael Jackson. Except when you do it according to Dosha Dressing, or personal energy. Add dissenting pieces like long flowy skirts in rich browns and frayed tops.
Through tactile stimulation, military coats and sweaters act through DPS (Deep Pressure Stimulation) and its subsequent down-regulation of stress response. It can indirectly support vagal tone and digestive homeostasis via the GBA. Sympathetic fight-or-flight mode deactivates as rest-and-digest parasympathetic responses activate. DPS stimulates proprioceptive receptors to signal the brain in promoting safety and grounding. Pair heavy textiles and knits with pumpkin seeds to reduce cortisol and balance adrenaline. This snack stabilizes blood sugar, supplies dry skin with essential fatty acids, and delivers a potent dose of magnesium.
Suitable in Chanel Suiting A suit is essential even during this athleisure era. Type-As who beam with panache gravitate to this one, but Type-Bs who need a tinge of grace and style benefit from its focus, structure, and warmth. This navy Chanel suit is a remarkable find from the Morphew Vault. Unlike a lot of Vault finds, we are sharing it here with you. It is a bouclé wool coat and skirt ensemble. The navy hue and structure are reminiscent of garments made to last. And it has! (Please inquire here https://www.aartikuver.com/contact to express interest in this piece)
Connect the Dots These pants are polka dots done right. They’re cropped and in two colors that embody leaving Summer and welcoming Fall. Olive and pink. Yes, blush is the pink of the moment, but the brightness of fuchsia dissolves saturnine states. This is the time of year that sees a drop in motivation. The combination of a cropped cut and strategic brightness stimulates the visual cortex and muscular movement. Definitely try the of-the-moment dress over pants with this one. Note: we broke our no-synthetics rule for the pants because they are that great and balanced with the suggested pieces.
Style Notes: AA Milano olive green and pink swiss cheese pants (2000s), Moschino bright lime green rayon & silk cocktail dress (1990s), Morphew silk cocoon.
The Meryl Our EIC’s jaw dropped when she spotted Meryl Streep wearing a Valentino she just saw at Morphew. She wore the silk dress at the Christie’s auction of The Devil Wears Prada 2 fashion items. Go all out in cinema style by topping this one with a Ryan Gosling heavy zip up vintage cardigan. Note: the same style he wore in the movie is also at Morphew.
Style Notes: Valentino seafoam green & cream silk crepe de chine floral dress (1990s).
FASHIONABLE SCIENCE
Take the distress out of transition dressing. As we start falling with the leaves, we are also dressing with the superb hand-picked pieces of vintage. Our Editor-in-Chief chose these pieces at Lower East Side’s sustainable luxury boutique Morphew. These looks combine on-trend pieces with personal energy and gut-brain axis resilience.