There are a few must-rent summer essentials on our list this season
It combines historical relevance with classic elegance and, thanks to the recent service, is also an extremely pleasant daily companion
Comfort is part of the equation
According to the Oxford English Dictionary , the first published use of the saying came in a 1719 poem Epistle to Ramsay by William Hamilton: The bonny Lines therein thou sent me, / How to the nines they did content me. The exact phrasing appeared in 1837 in The New York Herald : One evening a smart young mechanic, dressed to the nines, might have been seen wending his way along Broadway. Today, to the nines commonly describes a situation where someone has gone all out, clothing-related or otherwise
The black and white composition of the 2025 inaugural gown aligns with that established visual language
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