The Daily Telegraph - 07.08.2019

The Daily Telegraph Wednesday 7 August 2019 *** 19

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fter a brief respite in which

I found myself wearing

cotton espadrilles in driving

rain, temperatures are set to rise

again. Summer is back on, which

is lovely for those staycationing on

the coast – but I’ve already

run out of hot-weather

clothes to wear, and

creative ways to restyle

my trusty summer

dresses.

Luckily, the same

can never be said

of this summer’s

best-dressed

women.

With more

than a little help from personal

stylists and walk-in wardrobes at

their disposal, you’ll never find

them in a soggy espadrille: here

are the lessons we can learn from

their chicest looks.

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5 style updates to borrow from

summer 2019’s best-dressed women

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SHADES OF BEIGE ARE THE

NEW SUMMER WHITES

...BUT BLACK IS

ALWAYS CHIC

THE NEW TROUSER SHAPE

IS A WIDE-LEG CROP

IT NEVER DOES TO FORGET YOUR COAT

• THIS IS BRITAIN, AFTER ALL

THE FLORAL MIDI

IS STILL A THING

Optic white is too white,

whatever the context: teeth,

wedding dresses, jeans. If you’re

considering the latter, then look

for a more natural off-white

shade in a slightly relaxed cut –

unless you do more squats than

Sisyphus, avoid spray-on

“stretch” styles.

On the high street,

Cos’s cream barrel-leg

jeans (£69, cosstores.

com) tick the shape

and colour boxes.

Margot Robbie (whose

stylist, Kate Young,

is also behind

the wardrobes

of Sienna Miller,

Rachel Weisz and

Dakota Johnson),

currently press-

junketing for her

turn in Quentin

Tarantino’s latest

film, paired straight-

leg ivory jeans with a

buttermilk blouse, both

by cool Californian

label Dôen.

The addition of

buttermilk (a colour

that has until now been

reserved for the walls of

student accommodation) to

our fashion palette marks

a wider shift – first brown

was plucked from the bad

taste abyss to become a chic

neutral, and now shades of

beige and taupe have shed

their drab associations –

case in point, Sienna Miller’s

wheat-coloured trouser

suit (try & Other Stories and

Hobbs for similar).

Trousers are oft overlooked in

summer, but a wide cut and cropped

length give optimum breeze-around-

your-legs-ability, and they solve the

thigh-chafe problem (if you know, you

know). The Duchess of Cambridge

gave the trouser shape her seal of

approval at the Chelsea Flower Show

• her caramel pair was from Massimo
  Dutti. Gap and Boden both have a
  good range, or try Monki for more
  casual denim versions.

Of course, pale shades

don’t come without their

risks, and if your day-to-

day involves a bus

journey, I’d steer clear

altogether. Black might be

a bit hotter, but a loose

silhouette balances that

out, and it always

looks fresh: see

Naomi Watts’s

modest frilled dress,

and Bianca Jagger’s

black-upon-black

look, worn to

attend a couture

catwalk show in

Paris last month.

Both women

have chosen to

offset the black

with lighter

accessories, but

the joy of black is

that it goes with

almost every other

shade, so you’re

bound to have

shoes and bag to

suit already.

They may have become

ubiquitous, but the death of

the floral midi dress would

leave a gaping void in

many a wardrobe. Avoid

the worst bit of them –

which is spotting seven

other women in the same

one at the same party –

by shopping off the

beaten track. Lily

and Lionel, Beulah,

D’Ascoli and Rhode

all offer florals a cut

above your everyday

daisies and roses.

Carrie Symonds’s pink

and red floral is a new

season riff on one of

Ghost’s classic shapes

• the brand may have
  built its name on
  bias-cut silk slip
  dresses in the
  Nineties,
  but it’s the
  wide range
  of floral
  midis that
  make it a
  shopping
  destination
  now – and
  the prints are
  just as varied, if
  you don’t want
  to look as though
  you’re taking style
  tips from the new
  First Girlfriend.
  Once you’ve
  found a best-
  in-show print,
  you can enjoy its
  magical versatility: smarten
  it up for work with courts à la
  Carrie and add a top-handle
  bag, render it perfect for the
  weekend or a spot of sport-spectating
  with white trainers and a fedora – see
  Lady Helen Taylor at Wimbledon – or
  make like Claire Foy and add heeled
  sandals and a refined raffia bag, spot
  on for a country wedding.

Party coats are one of my favourite

concessions to the British weather,

because as anyone who’s faced an

8C August day in a silk tea dress

will attest, being cold can really

kill a party (and while visible

nipples aren’t usually mentioned

in dress codes, this look is a

bit much).

Rather than checking your

coat, invest in one that you

can wear in place of a party

dress: Helen Mirren’s is

£1,750 from British brand

Suzannah (suzannah.com) –

steep, but will stand up to

any dress code. The Duchess

of Cambridge, Countess of

Wessex, Princess Beatrice

and Autumn Phillips are all

in the royal fan club – and

they also offer a made-to-

measure service if you’re

planning in advance for a

really special occasion.

Personally, I’d need to

remortgage my house to

afford one of those, and

sadly, as a millennial, I

don’t own one, so I

tracked down a purple

satin style at La Redoute

(£31.60, laredoute.

co.uk) and four

different floral

jacquard options by

Baum und

Pferdgarten, all

currently in the sale

(from £109.50,

baumundpferdgarten.com) in a

range of sizes.

For a more relaxed option,

head to Free People or

Monsoon for a kimono coat

in the same vein as Lisa

Bonet, who wore hers over a

black dress to attend 30-year-old

daughter Zoë Kravitz’s pre-wedding

dinner (I know what you’re thinking:

how can Bonet have a 30-year-old

daughter? Is she Benjamin Buttoning?).

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