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The trick to making any look sing? Make sure your neck-level is next level | Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion


From a flourish of extra fabric at the top of a blouse to a dramatic necklace, extra details can take your look a long way

Or the Britney and Christina years, when music videos and magazines were a montage of hipbones, out and proud above low-rise waistbands, like shark fins poking out of an ocean. The Chloé girl, as seen on the catwalk at Paris fashion week, loves a soft drapey blouse, possibly in sheer or lace, with a flourish of extra fabric at the top. Style is so often about a gesture, and these bohemian blouses are very much about how a soft, unstructured neckline signals a lighthearted, freewheeling mood – the opposite, in other words, to what a starched-and-stiff collar and necktie suggests.

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