Try a power sock and dig out your leopard print: 8 ways to restyle your wardrobe (without buying anything)

Jess Cartner-Morley breathes new life into the between-seasons wardrobe. All photographs: Iain Anderson. Styling: Melanie Wilkinson Photograph: Iain Anderson/The Guardian

I don’t know about you but I am so bored of all my clothes right now. My favourite jumpers have tipped from comforting familiarity into the kind of familiarity that breeds contempt. My winter coat hulks awkwardly on its peg in my hallway – like a party guest who doesn’t know when to leave, getting on my nerves every time I walk past it.

This happens every year at the tail end of winter. Every year, at the point when spring is in the air but in a flighty, unreliable way (it’s still cold in the mornings, still dark in the evenings) I run clean out of enthusiasm for everything I’ve been wearing.