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SMILE! CHEER-YOU -UP CHIC IS THE HEIGHT OF FASHION

Jewel colours. Feel-good furry fabrics. Party tops. Gold

- Follow: @dailymailf­ashion by Shane Watson

This is the time of year when a woman’s thoughts turn to autumn/winter fashions — only this year most of us are thinking, forget it, we can’t afford butter, let alone new boots. When you’re in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, the new season’s trends are low on the list of priorities.

Even so, we’re not going to stop celebratin­g birthdays, or dressing up for parties. We still need to polish up for work events, meet-theparents lunches and anniversar­y dinners — and we want to look good and get it right.

With that in mind, here are some tips on what’s what for autumn/winter, so you can re-think the clothes you own, re-style things you love, and refresh old favourites by adding a couple of new items to the mix.

Fashion no longer lurches from A to Z and back: we move our wardrobe on with a few tweaks — an addition here, a new colour there — so none of this has to be painful or pricy.

Let’s not waste our opportunit­ies by skulking around in clothes whose only objective is to get us through life. Let’s embrace colour, texture and flair, with fashion that —even in the gloom of winter — makes you stand taller and smile.

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Top, £240; trousers, £175, both essentiela­ntwerp. com

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