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Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: Want a style update? Pull your socks up!


You don’t have to get on board with this easy, fun and cheap fashion development … but a bare ankle is no longer cute

It is so annoying to realise on a bathroom break, after pudding, that for the past two hours you have been unwittingly showing the remains of your starter with every smile. The Duchess of Cambridge still wears white trainers and no socks with floral dresses, but a) to be fair, she’s probably had more pressing matters to contend with over the past year, and b) while she always looks charming, I’m not sure she’s exactly our north star here. The good news is that, when you get your eye in, wearing a different shoe and teaming it with a sock is an easy, cost-effective and practical way to update your wardrobe.

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