Pop on a jacket

YOU don’t want to take your best tailored blazer (too smart and easily crushed), but a jacket is essential both as a cover-up and a look polisher-off.

I think you can’t beat a cotton fourpocket jacket for all-round, go-witheverything ease, especially in khaki (€55, marksandspencer.com). This M&S version has a slightly gathered waist, and a bit of waist is all to the good, though personally I prefer a belted style such as & Other Stories’ denim jacket (€89, stories.com).

Otherwise, there’s Nrby’s neat fourpocket cotton utility jacket (pictured, €94, nrbyclothing.com), which you can get in hot pink, and why not?

Pink is the new navy after all.