Thursday styles: a tribute to Bunny Mellon

Everyone has style, especially those who have none.

Style, as it applies to the individual, is pure information, the great revealer of one's individual values.

Some people hide their style in the styles of others. Hence the popularity of brand names, and the pecking order among them, one not necessarily being better than the other and, if better, only better as the words better or worse apply to the value system of the individual.

I prefer a J crew T-shirt to a Lands' End T-shirt, though Bunny Mellon disagreed, preferring Lands' End. Compared to Bunny Mellon I have no style other than my own and what suits me, and if I buy Lands' End because Bunny Mellon, who quite literally had everything and whose estate is now being auctioned by Southeby's, bought them I forfeit any sense of style I might've had of my own.

Style is what's happening in the culture right in front of our eyes. We either adapt to it or make some part of it our own. Those who have no style are of course the most stylish, that's what's so perverse about it. 

(Pictured: the author's assortment of J. Crew pocket tees, $39.50.)