Clueless then you’ll understand the phrase ‘full-on Monet’. “You need to stop saying: ‘don’t look too closely, it’s a mess!’ every time someone compliments your dress,” ordered my friend Daisy at a party last month. “Just say thank you.” But it’s become a habit over years of secondhand shopping, pointing out every flaw in my outfit before anyone else can.
Missing buttons, wonky seams, the faint ghosts of historic coffee spillage. I’ve always privately felt that people fall into two groups: the naturally neat and sleek, and those of us destined, despite all best efforts, for a creased life; our shoes scuffed, our hems drooping, our collars a little skewiff.
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