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Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: there’s more to dressing in May than checking the weather


The texture of your clothes can hint at warm weather adventures but this is no time for stripping off

Go into any pub garden on a warm night and you will find folk who are usually quite sophisticated dressed as if for a saucy seaside postcard, with goosepimpled flesh crisscrossed with exposed bra straps and flushed with sunburn. You don’t need to be in a strappy vest, though: I’m talking about trousers worn sockless with flat sandals so that you can see a bit of bare foot. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend.

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