Monotoning is the new colour blocking – try pairing items from your own wardrobe in a fresh way
I can be honest with you now. I wasn’t at all sure that it would work when I remixed my column into a more sustainable format last year. But I was sure that fashion was about more than just accumulating loads of unnecessary stuff, and I knew lots of you felt the same way.
I was also conscious of a gap between the way I really get dressed – a blouse I’ve just bought, but worn with last summer’s sandals and jeans I’ve had for a decade, say – and being photographed in outfits with price tags attached to every piece. I was anxious that my trusty old favourites would look shabby up against shiny new stuff under studio lights. And I fretted that the scent-trail of excitement, the thrill of the fashionably new, would go cold if I stepped off the new-clothes merry-go-round.
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