On the Podcast: Vogue Editors Answer Your Summer Dressing Questions with Liana Satenstein

Reported by Vogue.

Summer dressing is genuinely hard — the heat, the sweat, the invitations that demand you look intentional while feeling like you're melting. According to Vogue, editors Nicole and Chioma tackled the season's most pressing style dilemmas on a recent episode of The Run-Through, joined by contributing writer and Addressed column author Liana Satenstein, who describes her beat as "the more saucy sides of what to wear and what not to wear."

First up: the bra debate. Specifically, whether one is required at the office. The group's consensus? It depends — but the heavily padded push-up, what Vogue Runway's Sarah Mower apparently calls the "chicken cutlet" bra, is a collective no. Some battles are not worth suiting up for.

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The conversation then moved to footwear, with Mathieu Blazy's Chanel Resort 2027 show still fresh — specifically, those divisive anti-sandals that read somewhere between sculptural art and podiatric chaos. Satenstein called them "deliciously demented demi-sandals," and while the group acknowledged their red-carpet-or-beach potential, the verdict was firm: they have no business on a New York City sidewalk in July. For anyone actually trying to show some toe this summer, Birkenstocks and kitten heels remain the smarter, more survivable options.

Then came the closet conversation — always thornier than it sounds. For the guilt-spiral of inherited clothing you'll never wear, Satenstein reframes the whole ordeal with a practical, almost ruthless timer method: sixty seconds a day, one unwanted item identified, seven days in a row. By Sunday, you've quietly assembled seven pieces to donate or sell without the emotional spiral of a full weekend cleanout. It's the kind of advice that actually works because it removes the drama.

The episode also covered how to build a summer office look that reads polished rather than desperate, what's on everyone's warm-weather shopping lists, and the increasingly complicated etiquette of wedding dressing — which, for the record, goes well beyond the tired "just don't wear white" rule. Summer style has always been deceptively high-stakes, and the only wrong move is pretending otherwise.

Read the original at Vogue.