Forget black and white, channel the 70s with chocolate, coffee and trenchcoat beige
My New Year resolution is to get better at vintage shopping. Vintage, charity, secondhand, call it what you want. I have always been green with envy at other people’s knack for truffling out bargains and treasures. I went into a vintage shop the other day, looked around and thought to myself, nope, nothing here. It was all too… brown. Too muddily neutral.
How wrong I was. Brown is exactly what we should be wearing, it turns out. Brown has always had a bad rep. Brown is mud and bus upholstery. It is the wrong kind of corduroy. (The cross-hatched scratchy kind, rather than the plush, jumbo cord kind.) It never seems properly fashion, somehow. Except, actually, it is as fashion as it gets. Forget black and white: according to Fendi and Chloé and Loewe, to name just a few, the colour combination of the season is brown on brown.
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