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One simple rule: “Read the room,” says Tim Gunn, the natty fashion author and academic best known for his tenure on “Project Runway,” the reality show.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

“Our mission all year was natty or bust, so we know we got to finish the job.”

From Washington Times ● Jan. 2, 2024

All of a sudden, an authoritative man in a fancy suit and a natty hat arrives.

From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

But one question he asks the players who verbalize the aspiration of winning the natty is: “Are you putting in the work to reach that goal?”

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2023

He tugged up the legs of his trousers a bit, as though to preserve their natty crease.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Irons, however brilliant, is a generation older than Hardy was in 1914, and Patel is taller and nattier than the more corpulent Ramanujan, who was ill at ease in Western dress.

From Nature ● Mar. 29, 2016

Two weeks ago, the Great Googa Mooga Festival descended upon Prospect Park in Brooklyn, which abuts on its left some of the borough’s nattier neighborhoods.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2012

The other rat is three feet shorter but nattier, wearing a suit and tie and clutching two big bags of money.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2010

TV went to Chicago armed with better makeup artists, nattier dress and more fancy electronic gadgets than ever before.

From Time Magazine Archive

“What were you aboard your last ship?” asked he of a smart-looking seaman on the right of the line as they stood across the deck facing him, who appeared neater and nattier than the rest.

From Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant by John B. Greene

All the sweeps wore their smartest, nattiest, mostly black best, even though the September sun delivered summer temperatures.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2019

I expect my elected officials to look at least as pulled-together as the nattiest customer at any given Buffalo Wild Wings.

From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2019

He became one of the House’s nattiest dressers, with a preference for pinstripe suits and polished shoes.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2018

To TV, the most modish gown or the nattiest waistcoat can look like something that was spilled on the carpet.

From Time Magazine Archive

Adzooks!" exclaimed the bailiff; "sure Harry Wakefield, the nattiest lad at Whitson Tryste, Wooler Fair, Carlisle Sands, or Stagshaw Bank, is not going to show white feather?

From International Short Stories English by Various