Simone Ashley’s Bermuda Shorts and Cowboy Boots Are a Winning Summer Combo

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is not contained to the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as Simone Ashley would be the first to tell you. It includes airport arrivals, pre-event pap walks along the Upper East side, hotel departures, , and all the morning after looks that are perhaps just as curated as those designed for the gala itself.

See: leaving a New York hotel yesterday afternoon in a pair of as if to remind spectators that she had up until this point been hard at work.s final coup of the 2024 Met Gala season reaffirmed her status as a cool girl on the rise, as she dressed in a leather jacket—something of a staple for this Surrey native—jean shorts and knee-high cowboy boots.

It’s a look that was first popularised in the summer of 2023, when Bermuda-length jorts got a second wind thanks to , who’d often wear them with tanks and trucker caps as a subversion of the clothes closer associated with Rust Belt machismo. (See the photos .)Simone Ashley at the 2024 Met Gala.Much like Jenner’s $1,000 slippers, I’d imagine this look functioned as a sort of factory reset for this actor—wired headphones in, world out—who posed before a phalanx of photographers in a Cher-inspired, custom Prabal Gurung gown earlier this week. “I’m keeping my head down as much as I can,” Ashley told Vogue India back in April. “Life after Bridgerton has been so exciting.

I was doing all these unbelievable things, like going to the Met Gala and shooting fashion editorials. It was a whirlwind.”This article first appeared on By signing up you agree to our (including the ), our and to receive marketing and account-related emails from Glamour.