Comfort is in fashion, with kimonos on the catwalk and cashmere jogging bottoms on the high street. But is it ever OK to wear your nightie to work?
The designer Yves Saint Laurent once said that dressing is a way of life. In his view, clothes are not a mere accessory to life’s key moments, but integral to the moment itself. Fashion, then, is not just a hobby, but a methodology for living well. What Saint Laurent never made clear was whether this methodology can be applied to an ordinary, less fashionable life, where the best moments regularly include ordering a pizza from bed or hangover-crying to episodes of the Antiques Roadshow. But luckily, contemporary fashion has this covered with the current trend for comfort dressing.
Broadly speaking, comfort clothes are the kind of thing that you already own. Think of the old jogging bottoms you wear around the house and might even pop to the corner shop in; the stretched, bobbly jumper that your relatives mock but you can’t live without; the oversized T-shirt you might lazily wear to your local but then fall face first into bed without removing. You have probably owned this style of clothing your whole life, but what is new is wearing it outside – and not just as a quiet trick you play hoping no one notices, but loud and proud. You’re comfy, and you want everyone to know about it.
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