The secret to hosting a fashionable lunch? Match your tablecloth
telegraph.co.ukextension of the catwalk.The pandemic amplified this growing movement. With dressing up for parties banned, many of us turned our attention to our kitchen tables.
Suddenly styling them with colourful glasses, wildflowers in jars and vintage embroidered napkins, then showing them off on social media, became an alternative creative outlet.
Wearing a dress in a similar shade was the logical next step.“So many of us were using the dining table as an office, and I found the best way of creating a separation between the work day and the evening was by throwing on a tablecloth and lighting a candle,” recalls interior designer and influencer Louise Roe. “I’m not precise enough to match myself exactly to my table, but I love creating a mood with a particular shade or material and including myself in it.”Fashion brands took note.
Yolke – a British label known for turning beautiful printed linens into romantic dresses – was one of them. “During the pandemic nobody was buying our party dresses,” says founder Ella Ringer, “so we were wondering what we could do with all our linen.
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