The challenge is to avoid the fondue-eating, orange-casserole-dish retro associations
Time for a recap, post-party frock and novelty sweater season, of where we are vis-a-vis normal clothes. The shortcut to looking chic in an unfussy way was, for a long time, a white shirt. Then it was a dark polo neck, worn on its own or layered under anything and everything. The second half of last year was a blue-and-white-striped shirt moment.
The new look is the high-rise white collar. This can be a pie-crust blouse, or a white polo neck knit such as the one I’m wearing here. Its references include Alexa Chung, possibly photographed en route to a Chanel catwalk show, probably in a loafer; Jude Law in The Young Pope, drinking Cherry Coke Zero for breakfast in the Vatican; there is a dash of ironic 70s skiwear. In other words, for all its simplicity, it’s a lot more luxe, more high-rolling, than the standard flat-white shirt collar.
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