Every woman needs a classic white shirt – here’s how to wear it

The simplicity of the white shirt makes it a foolproof option when you just can’t decide what to wear. Just think Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana – and the French

These days, when I really don’t know what to wear, I wear a white shirt. It took me a long time to figure this out, but I’m glad I got there in the end. What I realised was that a wardrobe crisis is about identity, not clothes. It is about using clothes as a metric for squaring who you are with what other people see; about ambition or impostor syndrome. A wardrobe crisis isn’t really a fashion problem, so piling on the trends only confuses things further. On days when the prospect of getting dressed feels problematic and fraught, a white shirt brings you back to serenity.