Dressing for LA is harder than dressing for a city with real seasons

24f, three years here. Back home in Chicago I had a system winter wardrobe, summer wardrobe, transition jacket, done.

LA has broken me. Every day is a version of 65-80° but which version depends on what neighbourhood you're in, what time it is, and seemingly the mood of the marine layer. I own seven denim jackets now because I kept buying a solution to a problem I cannot solve.

The micro-codes here are also genuinely hard. The Silver Lake aesthetic is different from the West Hollywood going-out thing which is different from the Venice beach-adjacent effortless thing which is different from whatever Culver City is doing. They all look casual. They are not casual. The ease is constructed and you cannot fake the construction. People clock it within a block.

Three years in, I should have this figured out. The denim jacket count says otherwise.