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The trench that makes jeans look expensive.
A cropped leather trench is the most efficient thing you can throw over anything, jeans, a slip, the gym clothes you'd rather not discuss, and instantly look like you meant all of it.
Acne's is the real-leather version at three grand, and it's a genuinely beautiful coat. The quiet truth is that a good faux one, cut the same short length, reads identical from across the street for the price of lunch.
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The coat does the intimidating so the dress can flirt — the cold-weather play is where that trick gets spelled out.
Over a dress it does the same job in daylight: add a boot, add tights, put a jacket over the top is the entire fall formula, and this is the jacket.
The headline isn't a figure of speech. The wide-leg jean it makes look expensive has a page of its own.
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