Clockwise from left: Cotton dress, £45, Marks & Spencer; straw hat, £45, Cos; sunglasses, £44, Komono; cotton dress, £245, Pink City Prints; linen tunic, £49, Brora And what about the internees at Bergen-Belsen who, when the concentration camp was liberated in 1945, were handed lipsticks?
Lieutenant Colonel Mervin Gonin noted in his diary, ‘That lipstick started to give them back their humanity.’For Terry Waite, held hostage in Lebanon for four years in the 1980s, it was pressed trousers that maintained his sanity. ‘I was determined not to lose what little dignity I could muster,’ he recently told The Telegraph.
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