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This Valentine’s Day, I’m finally going to learn to love bows | Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion

From black ribbons tied into ponytails to bows on dresses, they’re everywhere – the trick is wearing them without feeling silly

At the most recent Copenhagen fashion week, which can generally be relied upon for slick no-frills minimalism, there was a sliver of black silk ribbon tied into every ponytail. Then Sarah Jessica Parker, who is also not eight years old, wore a bow so vast it trailed from her crown to her hem, for a fancy New York ballet gala. After a non-scientific but extensive study of what people are wearing, I have reached the following conclusions: my first tip is to maybe swerve the ballet-shoe pink, which is pretty but possibly over literal, and try monochrome instead.

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