Dale Arden Chong is the senior fashion trade editor at ELLE.com, where she edits and reports on the latest trends, labels, and designers in fashion to bring you the best items to elevate your wardrobe. With a passion for great fashion stories and dressing (as well as a knack for digging into details), she has a deep knowledge of quality design, construction, and materials based on testing hundreds of products in her eight-plus years in the industry, so if you ask her for a shopping recommendation, she’ll give you five recommendations Plus her honest, unfiltered opinions. Outside of fashion, her hobbies include cooking, playing tennis, ceramics, and watching BTS dance videos on YouTube. Follow her on Instagram at @dalearden.

Meg (she/her) is the deputy fashion retail editor at ELLE.com, where she specializes in fashion, home, and lifestyle shopping stories. Over the past three years, she has spent countless hours researching brands, testing hundreds (maybe even thousands!) of products, and doing in-depth research into market and consumer trends. Her favorite roles include co-writing the monthly series Same Same But Different and curating the fashion retail for ELLE Escapes. Meg graduated with honors from the Missouri School of Journalism with a concentration in magazine editing. In 2020, one of her stories won an award in the service article category from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The year before, the Society of Professional Journalists recognized voxmagazine.com as “Best Affiliated Magazine” in its Mark of Excellence Awards when she was a staff writer there. Meg’s stories have appeared on Cosmopolitan, City & Country, Harper’s BazaarAnd Good housekeepingamong many other mediums. Her personal passions include traveling, buffalo sauce, and gardening. You can find her in New York, where she lives, or on Instagram, where she also lives. She will never stop hoping for a One Direction reunion tour.