If you don’t have this jacket (tailored, checked, on the grey-to-beige scale of soft neutrals), then get one
Please tell me you have this jacket, or one very similar, already. And if not, then if you wouldn’t mind explaining what exactly you have been doing with yourself for the past four months? Because that is how long it is since the checked grey-or-beige blazer established itself as the new key piece in the wardrobe of the grown-up fashion connoisseur. At New York fashion week last September, I wore mine for the first time. By the London shows a week later, it had become front-row uniform, making us look like a lineup of fashion-swot prefects. (Which, in a way, is what we are.) At Gucci in Milan, I counted 11 versions on the catwalk. By the end of Paris fashion week, I had to have it relined, because it was falling apart. (Oh, the joys of a high-street bargain.)
In other words, if you don’t have this jacket (tailored, checked, on the grey-to-beige scale of soft neutrals) then get one. Do that, and you have my blessing to ignore all other style diktats for the foreseeable future, because the jacket will stand your look up completely by itself.
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