1.   A decade ago, when the country was in a deep recession, the Gap made its name hawking wardrobe staples such as khakis and T-shirts.

2.   Fur trim was everywhere, as was leather, which was treated as a wardrobe staple akin to wool.

3.   It is the quintessential wardrobe staple.

4.   The basic framework has been little altered, but any fashion aficionado can tell you that rare is the wardrobe staple too classic to prohibit variations on a theme.

5.   The polo shirt popularized by French Davis Cup hero Rene Lacoste became a wardrobe staple.

6.   There will be no need for the fashion stylists and editors who have made A.P.C. a wardrobe staple while splashing it across their magazines to pull out their calculators.

7.   This was the season, lest you forget, in which Nazi uniforms became a wardrobe staple.

8.   Possessing what some saw as a sixth sense of what women wanted, Saint Laurent introduced stylish, tailored pantsuits that remain a wardrobe staple of the working woman.

9.   Anyone looking for a more adventurous interpretation of that wardrobe staple, the little black dress, has only to look to Yohji Yamamoto.