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After some no doubt supersubtle finesses and pivots on both sides, Black seems to have achieved his goal on 30.

Of those colleagues, the most important is probably Jodi Melnick, a veteran of postmodern dance with a supersubtle style, an exemplar of the less-is-more magic that Mearns seems to be after.

Nissley says owning a bookstore is “a supersubtle ongoing dialogue” with the community, and that a bookseller’s ultimate goal should be “learning what the neighborhood wants. I always wanted it to be a neighborhood bookstore,” Nissley says.

In the past, Ms. Melnick has had trouble translating the idiosyncratic magic of her personal style, slippery and supersubtle, onto other bodies.

So was the elegance of mix and match: suits with supersubtle changes of pattern or surface between jacket and pants.