selection

No woman has ever lacked elegance because of an excess of simplicity but always because of an accumulation of elaborate details or of ensembles that are badly co-ordinated or ill-adapted to the hour and the occasion.

Restraint is the cross-domain concept that unifies the wiki's argument. It is not deprivation. It is the form that attention takes once it has matured — the capacity to withhold, to leave the space empty, to refuse what does not belong.

Selection is the discipline shared by the wardrobe, the room, the ear, and the page. It is the cross-domain expression of the same faculty: the capacity to choose, and to choose well, which requires knowing what to refuse.

The thread running from dress to interiors to prose: that quality is what survives subtraction.