A draped black blouse tucked into a black pleated maxi skirt, cinched with a woven, embellished belt and worn with flat sandals. All-black outfits can read flat in photos, and the belt is what stops that from happening here. It is the same lesson as look one, just in a different color story: when everything else in the outfit is a single color, the belt becomes the one piece doing all the styling work.

How to wear it now: Before you buy anything new for an all-black outfit, check your closet for a textured or patterned belt first. It is the cheapest way to keep monochrome from looking unfinished.

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Look back across all nine and the pattern is not a single trend color or silhouette. It is a technique: one deliberate, contrasting accessory (a sash belt, a newsboy cap, a bag charm, western boots) doing the job of making an otherwise simple outfit look styled. That is the cheapest and fastest way to translate anything from this list into your own closet this fall.

For more on what is coming next this season, read I Came for the NYFW Runways, but These Celebrity Outfits Distracted Me