Striped clothes

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Stripes have long been a somewhat divisive corner of the fashion world.

Once upon a time, problematic makeover TV shows told us that vertical stripes would be more flattering and horizontal stripes were to be avoided at literally all costs because they make us look ‘bigger’.

Thankfully, those days are behind us – dear reader, you’d better wear whatever stripes make you happy, or else I shall be very cross.

However, I myself used to fall prey to a different stripe-centric problem pretty much every time I tried to wear them. Put simply, horizontal stripes made me feel like the Hamburglar. And vertical stripes? It was giving Beetlejuice babes.

If that’s what you’re going for, then fair play! Beetlejuice looked very sharp in that suit.

But if it’s not, and you want to get in on what Vogue says is one of the key trends of A/W 2025, then take it from........

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