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Maddy Mussen

Table cloths? It’s all about ‘table gowns’ this season

Bye bye tablecloth, hello table gown

(Picture: Summerill & Bishop)

Thinking of laying your Christmas table this year with a simple white table cloth? Or a little festive number, perhaps patterned with sprigs of holly and mistletoe? Or maybe you’re even going sans cloth, keeping it minimal? You couldn’t be getting it more wrong.

I hate to break it to you, but this is cheugy. It’s the festive season, baby, minimalism is out, maximalism is in, and the longstanding reign of table cloths finally has a challenger to the throne.

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