The Season's Smartest Blue Comes in a Deep, Dark Wash

Denim in its truest, deepest dye is the shade to be seen in this autumn, and the look travels well from a Nashville sidewalk to a Beverly Hills lunch. The appeal is the color itself, a saturated blue that reads as polished where a faded pair would read as weekend. For anyone building the pair into a real wardrobe rather than a single outing, there is a full run of styling directions worth consulting, eight of them.

With reporting from Harper's Bazaar.