As a former fashion editor for Elle magazine, I’ve helped millions of women choose what to wear. ‘Add a light-hued shoe or a beige mac, update your wardrobe with a new shoulder silhouette’ and so on.
On a chilly, sunny day in March, it was time to take my own style advice. A cream silk blouse, expensive mid-blue jeans, Celine kitten heels, a diaphanous, ankle-skimming cream coat by my favourite designer, Rejina Pyo. Perfectly dressed for a drink at a rooftop London bar? Not exactly.
This was my first trip to the JobCentre.
It didn’t look like it – my outfit was my
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