10 fashion trends to beat blues
Lockdown life killed off many of the looks we thought would dominate 2020. Now, crippling high heels are OUT in favour of fashionable flats. That’s just one of the . . .
Let’s be honest, summer trends have gone the way of Glastonbury and Glyndebourne, big fat weddings and dinner parties. If this were a normal year, we’d be rolling out the top ten new looks for the season ahead, including shorts-suits and trench coats. But this year is far from normal and no one has any use for a shorts-suit (phew! Wasn’t sold on those), or trenches, or three-quarters of the trends showcased on the catwalks last year in the world Before Coronavirus (BC). Now we’re all working from home (WFH), socialising from our sofas, and have nowhere to show off our clothes but the park or in the queue outside the supermarket. the idea of buying into a trend that will last six months feels irrelevant and inappropriate.
But that doesn’t mean we don’t need fashion. the opposite, in fact.
Of all the unexpected outcomes of the lockdown — a national exercise frenzy, an explosion of quizzes, the return of butterflies (or did we just not see them before?) — the most surprising may be that, after a short lull to catch our breath, we still want fashionable clothes, just not in quite the same way.
this time last year we were shopping with our safe-bet glasses on — if they had it in the navy or the khaki we were going for the navy or the khaki nine times out of ten. the thing about right now is we no longer need clothes to get us from A to B and then out to dinner, we need clothes we want to wear for the sake of it: comfortable, yes, low-maintenance, yes, but also transforming, joyful, fun, pretty.
Clothes that make us feel feminine and distract us from our growing-out roots and the WFH blobs we have become. so, with that in mind here are ten trends for summer 2020 we think will answer your needs in the months to come . . .
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