Designers love to look at staple silhouettes and rework them, and that goes for the latest drop of blazers, too. Waist-skimming, rib-hugging, and sometimes belly-bearing, cropped blazers are ...

When I was 16, I attended a writing workshop with a group of precocious young poets, where we all tried very hard to prove who among us was the most tortured upper-middle-class teenager.