Imagine a garment that gives you absolute coverage from head to toe, flattering and voluminous drapery around hips and thighs and…top ‘on-trendness’. Bet you didn’t think it would be the jumpsuit! Frankly I can’t see why this plucky garment might hang around on the rails of M&S a moment longer as it ticks all my [...]

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I’m loving the cold snap and have recently re-instated a long leather skirt from my wardrobe to tackle the problem of cold legs. Vintage, leather is working a treat, as is knitwear let me tell you, and I flagged up the merits of the coatigan in an earlier newsletter (do come and join us by [...]

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Hi Caryn, I wonder if you can help? I’m tall/curvaceous (6ft and size 18 all over) and have seriously fallen into the “mumsy” trap of wearing jeans every day with bland black/brown or plain blue tops. I think I have the shape right – v-necks with bootleg jeans, but I’m so bored with it all! [...]

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Seems I haven’t used up my ‘shoe cliché’ quota for this month, so you’ll have to bear with me. But when I get a good online steer, I like to head you that way too and as I was adding this entry to my shopping directory I made a mental note to tell you, when [...]

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Hooray the maxi dress makes a welcome return this spring and summer as designers play with a variety of hem lengths. Less high- season and more high fashion, the new maxi lengths have more structure and sophistication but all the practicality. Longer lengths avoid the need for debates around suitable hem lengths and mean that [...]

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