Camel, beige, blond – the best summer colours are the ones that match my holiday accessories
Instead of actually going on holiday, I have started dressing like my favourite holiday accessory – my straw basket. Oh, how I love a basket. A basket is a handbag designed for carrying a pair of sunglasses, a newspaper and a paper bag of almond croissants. I rest my case: handbag of dreams. And a straw basket is cool, these days, too. It has shaken off a twee, soap-scented, lady-on-a-bike vibe and become an Instagram star in its own right. You can now pay vast sums to have the exact kind of basket you’d find piled up cheap in a sunny market somewhere delivered to your door, tissue-wrapped in a box. If that’s your thing. And I’m not judging: like I say, I love a straw basket so much that I have adopted the colour as a head-to-toe summer dress code.
Some say summer is a time to wear bold colours – and it is true that a seaside rock pink that looks overly sugary against grey skies has much more sweetness in sunshine. Some say you should wear white in summer because it bounces sunlight away from your hot flesh and up on to your face. And some say you should wear black in summer because, well, black in summer looks cool.
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