Ditch the high heels and cropped trousers, invest in a holiday skirt - and you can still never go wrong with black. Jess Cartner-Morley on the essential style updates for your 2015 summer-holiday wardrobe
Yes, really. Because the cut-off denim short is too entrenched to be dismissed as an aberration any longer, and once you stop fighting this, summer dressing becomes instantly easier. Like emojis and no-reservation restaurants, denim cut-offs may have seemed like a fly-by-night trend to begin with, but they have turned out to be a cornerstone of 21st-century life, so you might as well get with the programme. Especially as much holiday fashion is now designed around what works with them. Case in point: that boho, embroidered, kaftan-esque blouse you kept seeing everywhere that you tried on with a pair of trousers and looked plain frumpy. Not at all the glamorous minor-Delevingne-on-holiday look you had in mind. Try it again, with a pair of denim cut-offs. The key is to find a pair with a womanly, roomy cut – think Beyoncé, not Katy Perry – that covers your tummy button and all, repeat all, of your bottom.
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