‘It could be a cream lace blouse and a black leather skirt; a fitted fluffball black sweater with a white pencil skirt; a white mini dress with black tights and heels’
So I’m totally on top of everything and 100% sure I ordered all those presents and they’re absolutely going to turn up on the doorstep Monday morning latest – pause for deep breathing into a paper bag – but, um, there’s quite a lot to do at this time of year, isn’t there? And it gets to the Saturday night before Christmas and you realise that “assemble chic outfit for party, with clean tights, hang on bathroom door” has somehow fallen off your to-do list. And it’s the Strictly final, so any small window of getting-ready time you might have had is going to be spent with one eye on the TV.
What you need are rules. This sounds horribly bossy for the first weekend of the school holidays, I know, but do you want to spend your downtime in a panic, grabbing random dresses out of your wardobe, discarding them and then having to hang them back up again? I thought not. What you need is a calm, fail-safe formula, and here it is.
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