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T-shirts that last and the world’s best jeans: 50 autumn wardrobe updates under £100 (some are even free)

Classic trainers, high street heels, leopard print coats … Our fashion guru shares her insider tips for those with champagne taste and a cider budget

Some of these tips are my learnings from years spent in design studios and on the shop floor: which high-street brands make the most comfortable shoes, where to find good-value tailoring, how to buy a great handbag if you’ve got champagne taste and a cider budget. Fill a bowl – not a sink, we don’t want any accidents with the plughole – with warm (not boiling) water, add a squirt of washing-up liquid, leave rings and earrings to soak for 10 minutes and then clean with an old toothbrush to dislodge grime. Look, you can easily buy one of these from Zara but the brilliant thing about the return of the knitted waistcoat – a kind of button-up sweater vest – is that this staple of the gentleman’s wardrobe is widely available in secondhand stores for a song.

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