How to dress will always be at least as much about how to wear your clothes as which clothes you wear. Shirt buttoned up to the collar: Justin Timberlake. Three buttons undone: Simon Cowell. See? Back in the days of the bumster trouser and the hipster jean, not pulling your trousers up properly was the fashionista's favourite signifier of rebellion. Then, a couple of years ago, not putting your coat on properly took over as the ultimate look-at-me move. It started with shoulder-robing, whereby you ignore the sleeves of your jacket or coat and wear it draped around your shoulders like a cape. Shoulder-robing makes you feel a bit like a superhero. And, crucially, like wearing high heels, it has an innate impracticality ("Oh no, I'm fine, I don't need to use my arms, honest") that marks you out as a fully paid-up member of the fashion devout.
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'Shoulder-shrugging is a gift from the fashion gods for those who, like me, were incapable of pulling off shoulder-robing because the damn thing was always falling on the floor'