But let’s face it: Your favorite accessories and go-to pieces aren’t always within reach. Fabiola Beracasa often encountered this scenario when she found herself waking up to her fiancé’s closet instead of her own. “Anybody who’s ever lived in New York learns how to be resourceful,” says the former Dior staffer and creative director at Circa jewelry. “And there’s always some kind of boyfriend trend that’s in.” Beracasa would happily slip into the pants from her man’s slim-cut Tom Ford, Dior Homme, or custom-tailored suits and throw on her top from the night before; on other occasions, she’d belt one of his bespoke shirts or cardigans over American Apparel leggings she’d stowed in her bag. Designer Elise Overland stashes tights—her own stretch-leather variety—to pair with an oversize men’s button-down the next morning. (Overland has even devised a special way of tying men’s shirts so that, she says, they resemble a deconstructed Ann Demeulemeester piece.)
Still, sometimes even the keenest fashionista comes across outfits that are impossible to reconfigure for daytime. On one of her frequent trips to India, Overland slept at a friend’s house after a big party and found that the next morning, just as she was headed out to a business meeting, she couldn’t retie her 30-foot-long sari. Her solution? She went in the outfit’s underpinnings: a sequined bra top and green petticoat. “I didn’t care,” she says. “And when you don’t care, people don’t dare to care.”
Plimpton concurs. “If you feel like you’re doing the walk of shame, you’ll look like you’re doing the walk of shame,” he says. “You have to remember that you’re recovering from a good time. Walk with pride.”
