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The secret to looking effortlessly stylish? A little work and a few simple rules | Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion

Give the impression you are chic to your bones by keeping things understated and adding a personal twist

So, right now, it’s about draping your cardigan over your shoulders rather than tying it at your waist, about flipping an open shirt cuff back rather than rolling the sleeve to the elbow. Don’t get me wrong, I can moon over old photographs of Jane Birkin till the cows come home, but I’d much rather dig into the styling tricks I can borrow from those old photos, and map them on to what I’m going to wear today. Your antennae have picked up Paul Mescal at Glastonbury knotting his spare sweatshirt cross-body, over one shoulder and under the other arm, and adjusted your own knitwear draping accordingly, without making a big deal of it.

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