What I wore this week: sequins

Once you hit a certain age, you have to start being a lot more careful about how, and when, you wear sequins. Here’s how to shine in them

It seems churlish to speak ill of sequins four days before New Year, which is a big day for sequins, but the duty to speak truth to power must be shouldered at all times, even now. The sequin has a dark side, and you, the sequin-buying public, have a right to know the truth.

Here’s the thing: sequins, like drinking, turn on you when you get older. In my 20s, I understood a “hangover” to be a light headache of the type easily seen off with a couple of ibuprofen. Happy days. These days, just as drinking is ill-advised, sequins can be, too.