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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Maddy Mussen

How gardening clogs overtook trainers to become the 'It' shoe of summer 2025

As fashion’s obsession with workwear marches on, the style-obsessed among us are looking in increasingly unusual directions to find inspiration.

We have mined kitchen-wear for nearly all its worth, courtesy of The Bear and all its stylish, shouty chefs. The painters and labourers have had their Carhartt and Dickies usurped, the hikers have had their boots and trainers pinched, and the fisherman have watched as their vests became fashion bait.

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