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The art of looking like you didn't try, which is its own kind of trying.
means A relaxed, unforced quality in manner or appearance, free of visible effort or stiffness.
from From 'casual,' which traces back to Latin 'casualis' — 'happening by chance' — itself from 'casus,' meaning 'a fall' or 'a chance occurrence' (the same root that gives us 'case' and 'cascade'). The word started out describing things that happened accidentally or unpredictably, and only later drifted toward describing people and clothes that seem unplanned and easygoing — the suffix '-ness' simply turns that drifted sense into an abstract quality. So the word's own history performs its meaning: it wandered into its current sense almost by chance.
- origin
- from Latin casus, meaning chance or accident
- paradox
- often requires more effort than formality does
- fashion tell
- expensive basics are casualness in disguise
- social use
- signals comfort, or practiced performance of comfort