I’m fishing it out of my cupboard to pull over dresses and skirts. Safari jackets are the perfect lightweight summer throw-on.
Their east African associations mean they are intrinsically linked to thoughts of heat and sunshine and gins and tonic under the trees, but they’re also warm enough to protect you from blustery June days with distinctly un-Kenyan amounts of cloud coverage.
Sienna Miller certainly thinks so. Earlier this summer, she was spotted in New York in a pair of denim hotpants, a white lace top and a safari jacket thrown on top.
Yes, she was scoping out Manhattan for an iced coffee and a salad rather than the Masai Mara for an errant leopard, but she looked fashionable and laid-back all at once.
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