Followers of our Best-Dressed List are getting used to the news this fall that the No. 1 trend for the fashionable set is clothing that is basic black and sometimes with white — black and white for a little yin with the yang (or vice versa). When it is new clothes, black is recessionary proof, unlikely to go out of season in six months. When it is a matter of wearing something “vintage,” also known as “your clothes,” black is unlikely to be as easily remembered as, well, shocking pink; few if any will remember you wore that dress before. But probably there are other attractions to wearing black and white in these unsettled times. It expresses a longing for absolutes, some basic truths — black and white matters — to adhere to when everything else seems to be spinning out of control like a circus in purgatory.


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