We feel different about suits now the rules of office life have loosened: bring on slouchy linen or even a chic tracksuit
There is something deeply satisfying about wearing an outfit made up of two matching pieces. Stepping into a bottom half and then a top half that share colour and fabric, or slipping a matching coat over a dress, has a soothing, ritualistic simplicity. Like completing a Rubik’s Cube, but a lot easier. Repetition is always comforting, after all. A bowl of pasta, every forkful the same as the last, is calming and consoling after a long day; an episode of Friends that you have seen 20 times before offers a very particular kind of dopamine hit.
This is why pyjamas match. It is why, in the uncharted and psychologically choppy waters of the first lockdown, people who did not think they were tracksuit people at all started merrily clicking add-to-basket on coloured joggers with matching hoodies. Those days are gone, thank goodness, but the tracksuit has left a fashion legacy way beyond a reliance on elasticated waists. It has given us a taste for matchy-matchy as a pleasurable way to dress.
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