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Style Guide

Downtown Girl — Find Clothes That Match This Look.

NYC after dark — leather, baby tees, and a perfectly scuffed boot.

The Palette

  1. No. 01Black#161616
  2. No. 02Smoke#5a5a5e
  3. No. 03Oxblood#5e2230
  4. No. 04Washed Denim#6b7e95
  5. No. 05Bone#e7e1d6

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  1. Cropped leather moto jacket01

    Aritzia

    Cropped leather moto jacket

    $88Black
  2. Vintage band02

    Reformation

    Vintage band

    $128Smoke
  3. Low-rise baggy jeans03

    Madewell

    Low-rise baggy jeans

    $168Oxblood
  4. Black slip dress04

    Revolve

    Black slip dress

    $228Washed Denim

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The wardrobe

Key pieces.

  • Cropped leather moto jacket
  • Vintage band or ribbed baby tee
  • Low-rise baggy jeans
  • Black slip dress
  • Knee-high or ankle moto boots
  • Oversized scarf
  • Micro shoulder bag and fine gold jewelry

How to wear it

Styling tips.

  • Pair something delicate with something tough — slip dress under a moto jacket.
  • Keep denim baggy and a little long, puddling over the boot.
  • Let the tee look lived-in; a band tee beats a logo tee here.
  • Stack fine gold jewelry rather than one statement piece.
  • Smudge, don’t sharpen — the makeup should look like last night’s.
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Downtown Girl is model-off-duty meets indie-sleaze: the effortless, slightly undone uniform of someone who lives below 14th Street and gets dressed in four minutes flat. The foundation is a cropped leather moto jacket, a worn vintage band or baby tee, and baggy low-slung denim — finished with either a beat-up knee-high boot or a ballet flat, depending on the night. There is always a little contrast: a delicate slip dress thrown under a heavy leather jacket, fine gold jewelry against a thrashed tee, smudged liner over a bare face. The palette is mostly black and smoke with a flash of oxblood, washed denim, and bone. Nothing is too precious; everything looks borrowed, broken in, or found. The mood is cool, urban, and deliberately careless — cigarette-and-coffee glamour without the try. To dress Downtown Girl is to look like you have somewhere better to be and you are already a little late.

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