Alyson wears a dorina cotton denim shirtdress (£266, Weekend Max Mara); Birkenstock Arizonas (£65, Birkenstock at Office); earrings (Alyson’s own)This desire for robust clothes is an age-related phenomenon.
In my 20s I would spend summer in cut-off denim shorts and spaghetti strap vests and think nothing of it. Dresses were sleeveless and swingy and often featured cycling shorts underneath (it was the 1980s).
Now my body is saggier and craggier, I still want to put clothes on and forget about them, but that doesn’t mean having less fun.
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