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Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: So long, sequin kaftan! The holiday wardrobe is all about sleek, muted neutrals


The vacation aesthetic is now altogether more low-key. Take a deep breath and put those fringed palazzo pants down

It is precisely because I am an absolute sucker for the chic Provençal promise of yet another straw basket that I am getting a bit fed up with how much the holiday glamour industrial complex takes out of my salary. I’ve been to a few fashion shows in the south of France and Italy in the past few months (I know, hard life), which provide excellent opportunities for close study of what fashiony people wear when it’s hot. Cos has a slim linen waistcoat (£135), which fastens with one button and is in a colour they call apricot, that would make a great travel-day layer but will also work at home.

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