How head-to-toe white can make you look and feel younger
telegraph.co.ukIt was unacceptable at a wedding, unless you were the bride.Lisa wears a wool twill waistcoat, £295, Raey at Matches Fashion; wool twill trousers, £350, Raey at Matches Fashion; Shoes and jewellery Lisa’s ownYou can see the logic behind the wedding ban – although no one objects to guests wearing black to a funeral.
But it’s debatable as to whether white makes you look bigger than other pale colours. As for the notion that white only works with teak-coloured skin?
That was just a snobby fashion rule when only a few people could afford to get tans.Wearing white from ankle to shoulders has soared in popularity recently, especially during the lockdowns when fewer of us were travelling on grubby public transport.It helps that so many fabrics are now machine washable – you can probably wash everything apart from suits and sequins if the temperature’s low enough.
Marks & Spencer is so confident about the robustness of its cashmere, it even puts that it’s machine washable on the label.Will all this practicality make white seem more prosaic and less luxurious?
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