I’m still not sure about skinny jeans on someone as curvy as me, but under a long trench, the proportion’s just about right. (With just a sweater? Bad.)

What I wore:

• Trench coat: $60 at Century 21 (half price :)
• Sweater: Christopher Fischer silk/cashmere/cotton, $32.97 at Century 21 (60% off)
  Bought both sweater and trench in the few days after I arrived in NYC. Nothing I owned in Sydney was remotely warm enough, so I had to buy a new warm wardrobe, fast!
• Polo shirt: (under sweater) Uniqlo, $5.90 on clearance
• Skinny jeans: Kenneth Cole outlet, $50
• Shoes: Marc by Marc Jacobs, $115 at Loehmanns
  These MJ flats, in this black-and-white colorway
• Bag: Longchamp
  My very first Longchamp bag, now almost 4 years old!
• Scarf: Descours pure cashmere, $40 (70% off) at Filene’s Basement
• Bracelet: Express, $14.50
• Watch: Fossil, $20 on sale at Macy’s.