Be honest, we’d all love a ‘Sayonara Zara’ party

The dawn of a new year marks the moment many of us throw open our wardrobe doors and, well, feel a bit sick actually. There’s nothing like rummaging among the overflowing contents and searching for anything not covered in festive sequins to help one realise that assistance is required. And rolling everything into fabric sausages à la Marie Kondo just isn’t going to cut it.

So I was secretly envious when I read reports that – back in the days when she was plain Meghan Markle – the Duchess of Sussex held a “Sayonara Zara” party to distribute her high-street clothes to friends.

According to a Hollywood source in Vanity Fair, when her “star was rising” thanks to appearing in Suits, the actress invited friends to her home and “gave away the lower-priced clothes in her closet”.

The claims have drawn criticism: isn’t it t terribly snobbish to consider yourself above wearing bargain fashion?

To which I say: be honest. Who among us wouldn’t like the occasional bonfire of the wardrobe mundanities? (And how flammable it would be…) If I had the spending power to fill my closet with the entire contents of the Net-a-Porter website and do away with some of the cheaper stuff, I

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