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

The key to making your old faithful summer dress work in 2024? It’s all about accessories

Model carrying and wearing many accessories
Items worn above are listed at the end of the article. Photograph: David Newby/The Guardian. Styling: Melanie Wilkinson

Accessories is a silly word. Sounds like the kind of fripperies you might find in a dressing up box. Surplus-to-requirements bells and whistles, like fascinators and hair ribbons and floral corsages. But the best accessories are, actually, necessaries.

This is more true than ever in summer. It is not an exaggeration to say that the right accessories are essential for good times in the sunny months. You need shoes that you can walk on grass in without sinking. A basket big enough to sling in a water bottle and your sunscreen. Sunglasses so that you can take your lunch hour outside without squinting.

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