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Joe Bromley

Why rugby shirts are the coolest spring trend: how the Old Harrovian staple went haute

One of this fashion month’s more unlikely street style takeaways: model types and the fashion editor brigade dressing for the rugby pitch. 

It’s unlikely because, for the most part, the fashion pack is allergic to organised sports (save the full-contact game of elbowing for a front row seat), and not since Princess Diana — patron of the candy pink and blue striped, knitted rugger-shirt — has there been a suitable pin up. 

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