The Quiz · Your archetype
The Purist
Fewer things, chosen exactly.
You would rather own eleven things that are right than forty that are nearly right. Your wardrobe has a palette, your bathroom shelf has four bottles, and you have been wearing the same earrings for six years. People assume this takes discipline. In fact it takes one good afternoon of deciding, and then nothing at all.
Your signature
- The wardrobe
- A wool coat in charcoal, straight, unbelted, worn until it wears out
- The jewel
- Small solid gold hoops that never come off
- The scent
- One woody scent, worn every day of the year
- The escape
- Copenhagen in June, in a hotel with white walls
- The ritual
- The same breakfast, made properly, at the same time
Your reading list
What The Purist should read next
Style The wardrobe
Thirty-Eight Pieces, Three Hundred Outfits
A capsule wardrobe is not a vow of poverty. It is a combinatorial problem with a pleasant solution, and the arithmetic is more forgiving than you think.
Style Outerwear
The Coat You Will Still Be Wearing in 2036
One coat, worn two hundred days a year for a decade, is the single best purchase in a wardrobe. Here is how to recognise it, what it costs and what to ignore.
Table Equipment
Six Things, and a Very Small Kitchen
A professional cook in a domestic kitchen would reach for six items and ignore the rest of the drawer. Here is the list, what to pay and what to skip.
