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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jess Cartner-Morley

High-street fashion needn’t be landfill fodder – if you choose your clothes well

Topshop clothes dummies in 2013.
‘In my wardrobe, designer clothes and high street ones rub shoulders.’ Topshop clothes dummies in 2013. Photograph: Alex Segre/Alamy

My favourite pair of black trousers came from Jigsaw almost five years ago. I can date them because I was on my way to the cinema to see the Frances McDormand film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which I remember because I left the bag containing them under my seat in the cinema and had to jump off the bus and run back – and Google tells me that the film was released in January 2018. I think they cost around £60.

I paid less than that for the ivory silk shirt I’m wearing with them today, which I bought from Marks & Spencer in 2016 from a collection curated by Alexa Chung. My leather belt is from Gap and may well be older than either of my children, one of whom is at university.

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