FASHION
Why the cotton shirt in your wardrobe is the new must-have
Just make sure it’s oversized and wear it like a jacket, says Harriet Walker
The trend as seen at New York Fashion Week (images 1 and 2) and Paris Fashion Week. “All the Parisiennes are at it, so don’t be put off”
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The Times
You probably already own autumn’s biggest trend, but are you wearing it properly? Forget reinventing the wheel — fashion types are simply styling it differently. Take one workaday cotton shirt and… actually, that’s it. Job done.
The once stuffy office shirt has had a rebrand in recent years, overhauled from workwear to casual staple. Shirts 2.0 tend to be softer, looser — less fitted, more flowy, and they come in every colour imaginable. If you have some hanging in the suits section of your wardrobe, don’t save them for your next board meeting.
Along the front rows in Milan and Paris last month, not only was the shirt the new T-shirt but on the off-duty models leaving via the back doors it was the new
