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Wardrobe treachery: how The Traitors contestants use fashion to deceive

Manipulative contestants use style camouflage ranging from forgettable normcore to pearl necklaces

The wrong word can be the difference between life, death and banishment on The Traitors, the parlour game turned reality TV show that once again had the nation gripped this January. Despite being a business manager, says Riki Finlay, a stylist on the series who worked on the contestants’ wardrobes, Gorton was “quite happy to come across as the normal dad, wearing sportswear, and not to seem like any kind of businessman”. He wears a subtle pearl necklace, single earring and few silver rings, which feels in keeping with him being a young man in 2024, yet it is one of the first wardrobe-related observations that people seem to mention about the show.

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