What I wore this week: what real people wear to fashion shows

Pleated skirts. That’s what we wear

Do you know what people actually wear to go to fashion shows? The relatively normal people who go to fashion shows for relatively normal, job-related reasons, I mean, rather than the people whose career is being able to monetise having a photograph taken in a cherry headdress or gold lamé thigh boots.

Pleated skirts. That’s what we wear. Last time I was at a show, I was wearing a dress with a pleated skirt, and about 25% of the women in the room were in a similar outfit. The only other time I remember such a concentration of pleated skirts and dresses being the norm was when the teachers at my school were gathered on stage for end-of-term assembly.