Marilyn Monroe once said clothes should be tight enough to show you are a woman but loose enough to show you are a lady. I know this sounds borderline problematic in 2022 but I don’t have time get into that here – and anyway, please don’t even think about trying to cancel Marilyn, kiddos, because for those of us who remember the 20th century, that is a red line.
The point is, she was right – at least when it comes to jeans. Just because it is time to leave the spray-on skinnies behind (and it is), you don’t have to embrace exaggerated wide-legged denim. Do you want to look like Justin Bieber? I didn’t think so. You want to look like Marilyn in The Misfits. (Google it and you’ll see what I mean.)
Jeans are the most useful item in a British summer. It is lovely to imagine a summer wardrobe of gauzy shirts and sundresses the size of hankies, but it’s also pointless. That wardrobe isn’t for summer; it’s for one or two brief spells of heatwave bliss. Your actual summer wardrobe – the clothes you will be mostly wearing between May and when Strictly starts – is a different kettle of fish.
