‘The silly coat – seen here in a riot of fluff and fuzz, but also anything sleeveless, collarless, buttonless or in a bright colour – is a surprisingly sensible buy’
I feel so inadequate when people say they put their out-of-season clothes into storage. I don’t, which means my clothes are so squashed together I have to arm-wrestle jackets out of a spaghetti junction of sleeves.
I have tried. Last month, after an hour, my pile for the loft was a bag of bikinis and a kaftan. Other than that, I don’t have many proper summer clothes; I live in Britain, and I’m really not a hot pants person. I wear the same clothes all year in different combinations. So I was staring at my three denim shirts – which I wear in summer as sort-of jackets, in winter under jumpers, and as buttoned-up shirts in autumn and spring – failing to pluck up the courage to put one in the loft. I couldn’t decide. The bag of bikinis didn’t seem worth the faff of the dusty loft ladder, so I just shoved it in the back of the wardrobe.
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