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Forget the plunging neckline – this is the shoulder season | Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
A glimpse of clavicle and bare neck is intimate – and reminds us that we’re all flesh and blood
It lends an ice queen vibe that can work in your favour, if you’re going for an ethereal-goth-princess Vampire’s Wife fit, but which in the general run of things can read as unhelpfully aloof. An asymmetric neckline, which slashes a diagonal from one collarbone to the opposite underarm so the garment is suspended from one side, is punchier – less debutante ball, more Studio 54. Or steal a styling idea from Paris fashion week and unbutton a white shirt before pulling it backwards to bare one or both shoulders, with some firm tucking in at the back so that it stays in place.
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