Our fashion choices always reveal something about us – even Julia Roberts’s armpit hair

The actor, whose unshaven look was so inspiring in the 1990s, is a living embodiment of how the way we present ourselves is always a form of self expression

Can someone ever just wear clothes without making ‘a fashion statement’? Daniel, by email

No. Everything you wear, Daniel, is a statement about you, I’m afraid, even if that statement is: “I am so scared of anyone thinking I care about how I look that I am wearing the same gross T-shirt, Gap jeans and trainers combo I have been wearing since I was seven. I am now 41.” This is what people who make fun of fashion never understand: making fun of fashion is like making fun of water, or air, because every single one of us makes a fashion statement every day. Every clothing choice you make – from what coat you buy to whether you get a bobble hat or not – says something about you: who you are, who you want people to think you are, who you would like to be. To paraphrase Ron Burgundy, we are all trapped in a glass cage of self-expression and everything we do and everything we wear expresses some part of ourselves.

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