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What can we learn from the clothes we buy but never wear? | Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion

I’ve set myself a project to wear the neglected items in my wardrobe – from a crimson silk skirt to a mustard coat

I have a daffodil yellow tweed shift dress with buttons down the front that I bought about five years ago and have worn, I think, three times. The key to finding your way back to clothes you feel disconnected from is to try to relocate the spark that drew you to them in the first place I don’t want to give up on the yellow dress. But often, what the clothes you buy but don’t wear teach you is that over time your taste has changed, and your retail instincts haven’t quite caught up.

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