This season's must-have? A plaid shirt, preferably your father's | Jess CartnerMorley
The good news is that the key piece of the new season is already in your wardrobe. The bad news is that you won't believe me when I say you should wear it to work or to dinner. The plaid shirt — last seen hanging around the coffee machine in the sixth-grade common room or buying wicks at B&Q — is having a fashion moment.
Kate Moss only made one catwalk appearance last year, and she wore a plaid shirt. During the Bottega Veneta Spring/Summer 2023 fashion show at Milan Fashion Week, Mossy strolled in a sky blue shirt with sea green hatching, relaxed cuffs, unevenly rolled up, low-rise blue jeans and a white ribbed cardigan. With her hair parted in the center and small gold hoop earrings, the look evoked the iconic era of her Calvin Klein campaign of the 1990s. an “Instagram moment” as if posting a photo meant something, but it is an undeniable fact that the moment everyone at a show picks up their phone is the same as the moment a football crowd roars or a dance floor begins to hop. In a time of dread these days come smartphones. A bit depressing, perhaps, but here we are.
The plaid shirt vibe is pure diamond in the rough. It's clear, but not boring. It has a sort of anti-bling message, which swings back and forth. It can be wholesome and hardworking, fragrant outdoors and woodsmoke, but it can also be countercultural and dark with cigarette burns. it's also Daisy in The Dukes of Hazzard, her shirt tied over tiny white shorts. It's Marlon Brando, pure muscle as New Jersey docker Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront, but also skinny Kurt Cobain onstage with Nirvana in the early 1990s. There were plenty of benefits even before Kate Moss did give it a makeover at Milan Fashion Week. a land grab for what used to be called streetwear. Trendy young gunslingers walking their French bulldogs through east London parks are as likely to be wearing hiking boots and fleeces as they are sneakers and shiny puffer jackets.
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How to wear the shirt plaid and make it fashionable, however, that's the question. Most of us can't hope to recreate what Kate Moss wears and expect to look like Kate Moss, the more that's a shame. Watching effortlessly is not the same as simply not making an effort. For the plaid shirt to work, you have to dress it up a bit. A leather jacket and thick loafers enhance it well, you will notice it. Or flip your layers and wear it as an open jacket over a ribbed polo neck in a bright contrast color. Brushing your hair and wearing earrings or a chunky necklace will help clarify that you're wearing the plaid shirt as a fashion item and you weren't caught wearing your pajama top. p>
What you don't need to do is throw money at the problem. This piece of the Bottega trophy turned out to be an ingenious trompe-l'œil, made of super-soft leather, hand-painted to look like flannel. Don't ask the price; you don't want to know. Instead, rummage through your closet, or your roommate's, or your dad's. If you want to get the boat out, £15 at your local thrift store should do it. Diamond in the rough, remember? So go dig.
Hair and makeup: Sophie Higginson uses Beauty Works and Kiehls. Model: Hanna at Milk. Shirt: Rails. Jacket: H&M. Pants: Jigsaw
The good news is that the key piece of the new season is already in your wardrobe. The bad news is that you won't believe me when I say you should wear it to work or to dinner. The plaid shirt — last seen hanging around the coffee machine in the sixth-grade common room or buying wicks at B&Q — is having a fashion moment.
Kate Moss only made one catwalk appearance last year, and she wore a plaid shirt. During the Bottega Veneta Spring/Summer 2023 fashion show at Milan Fashion Week, Mossy strolled in a sky blue shirt with sea green hatching, relaxed cuffs, unevenly rolled up, low-rise blue jeans and a white ribbed cardigan. With her hair parted in the center and small gold hoop earrings, the look evoked the iconic era of her Calvin Klein campaign of the 1990s. an “Instagram moment” as if posting a photo meant something, but it is an undeniable fact that the moment everyone at a show picks up their phone is the same as the moment a football crowd roars or a dance floor begins to hop. In a time of dread these days come smartphones. A bit depressing, perhaps, but here we are.
The plaid shirt vibe is pure diamond in the rough. It's clear, but not boring. It has a sort of anti-bling message, which swings back and forth. It can be wholesome and hardworking, fragrant outdoors and woodsmoke, but it can also be countercultural and dark with cigarette burns. it's also Daisy in The Dukes of Hazzard, her shirt tied over tiny white shorts. It's Marlon Brando, pure muscle as New Jersey docker Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront, but also skinny Kurt Cobain onstage with Nirvana in the early 1990s. There were plenty of benefits even before Kate Moss did give it a makeover at Milan Fashion Week. a land grab for what used to be called streetwear. Trendy young gunslingers walking their French bulldogs through east London parks are as likely to be wearing hiking boots and fleeces as they are sneakers and shiny puffer jackets.
after newsletter promotion
How to wear the shirt plaid and make it fashionable, however, that's the question. Most of us can't hope to recreate what Kate Moss wears and expect to look like Kate Moss, the more that's a shame. Watching effortlessly is not the same as simply not making an effort. For the plaid shirt to work, you have to dress it up a bit. A leather jacket and thick loafers enhance it well, you will notice it. Or flip your layers and wear it as an open jacket over a ribbed polo neck in a bright contrast color. Brushing your hair and wearing earrings or a chunky necklace will help clarify that you're wearing the plaid shirt as a fashion item and you weren't caught wearing your pajama top. p>
What you don't need to do is throw money at the problem. This piece of the Bottega trophy turned out to be an ingenious trompe-l'œil, made of super-soft leather, hand-painted to look like flannel. Don't ask the price; you don't want to know. Instead, rummage through your closet, or your roommate's, or your dad's. If you want to get the boat out, £15 at your local thrift store should do it. Diamond in the rough, remember? So go dig.
Hair and makeup: Sophie Higginson uses Beauty Works and Kiehls. Model: Hanna at Milk. Shirt: Rails. Jacket: H&M. Pants: Jigsaw
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