Jenna Lyons Knows How to Find Quality Clothing. Here’s Her Staple Wardrobe.

“I wear the same goddamn thing everyday,” Jenna Lyons recently told me over Zoom.

And whether you’re familiar with her from her stint on The Real Housewives of New York City or as the former president and executive creative director of J.Crew, you know that she’s not being hyperbolic. Lyons is known for her consistently polished — yet delightfully playful — personal style. But if you dissect many of her outfits, you’ll see that her wardrobe is built on a foundation of well-fitting basics.

Her advice is to invest in the items you wear the most, rather than in outfits you’ll wear only a handful of times. A helpful way to do this is to consider an item’s cost per wear, she said. And this is how she reflects on the price of her most-worn pieces: “If I went through the cost per wear of the things I wear all the time, you’d be shocked.”

Following that advice, her closet is full of elevated versions of everyday essentials, like a basic white T-shirt or a trusty pair of jeans. But Lyons is also anything but a gatekeeper, and she told us what she likes, why it works for her, and where to get it yourself.

Lyons knows exactly what she likes in a plain T-shirt, and the Everybody.World Boxier Trash Tee nails it. “My entire drawer is stacked with them,” she said, in white, black, and cream (called “scour” by the brand).

This T-shirt is heavier than most, with longer sleeves, a boxy shape, and a slightly shorter but not quite cropped length. She likes the close-fitting neckline, too, which allows her necklace to sit just outside of the shirt.

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