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Photo: Liam Goodman (book); Courtesy of Abrams Brooks (drawing)
**Edith Head’**s 1967 book H_ow to Dress for Success,_ a 180-page guide to the perfect ensemble for every occasion, is back on shelves. While it’s a light, nostalgic read—“Looking like a super-efficient executive secretary may help you get the job, but it won’t help you punctuate the letters.”—some of the particulars felt, thankfully, a little outdated.
But Head does know about dressing for the part, which inspired us to apply her thoughtful, twentieth-century advice to the twenty-first-century wardrobe. Herewith, Vogue’s Guide to Dressing for Success.