Our new column is here to help you get dressed again.
7 May 2021 • 5:00am
Cotton-muslin dress, £325, Marina Rinaldi
It’s been the year style has been put on ice in favour of track suit pants and slippers. But now it’s time to refind your fashion confidence and dip your toe back into something braver. In our new Wardrobe Whisperer column, our team will find a solution for every style crisis.
This spring I have seen some lovely long dresses and it fills me with hope. I’ve been looking for three years! I’d like something cotton, high-necked and long- or three-quarter-sleeved. I am about 5ft 9in and like loose, flowing designs. Each time I find something that might be possible, the maximum size is 14 or 16 – I am a 26 or 28 and it seems well-made, classic dresses are not available. In moments of desperation, I think about hunting for a dressmaker. Can you help?
One aspect of my job I have always enjoyed is its unpredictability. Each day is different and there’s no way to predict what you will face or where you will go. So, it came as a bit of a surprise when in the year which has been the most unpredictable yet, the furthest I’ve went is my living room. I could never have imagined a world where myself and my colleagues would be writing about the mass closure of pubs, restrictions which force people to stay in their homes and the legislation instructing masks to be worn in public places.