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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Chloe Mac Donnell

How outdoors chic hit the mainstream

Female hiker hiking across wooden footbridge, cropped view of legs and hiking boots.
Female hiker hiking across wooden footbridge, cropped view of legs and hiking boots. Photograph: Maria Fuchs/Getty Images/Image Source

Over the weekend, while her in-laws were wearing fur-trimmed robes and gobstopper-sized diamonds, Meghan Markle was pictured out hiking in leggings and a rain jacket, strolling down a mountain trail in Montecito, California.

The Duchess of Sussex wore brown lace-up boots, thick blue woollen socks, a straw hat, oversized sunglasses and – peeking out from under a pale pink neckerchief, in some truly, monumental mountainside symbolism – a quartz crystal Clarity Retreat necklace from the brand Maya Brenner. “A subtle wearable crystal piece to protect your peace … so every day can be your retreat,” reads the online blurb.

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