SHANE WATSON: Six basic ways to summer-up your look - and you don't have to break the bank doing it! By Shane Watson For The Daily Mail Published: 16:59, 23 June 2024 | Updated: 16:59, 23 June 2024 e-mail View comments Here's an odd thing about summer in this country. You plan for it. You buy a few new summer clothes for when the time is right.
You're all set, counting down the days, then there's a burst of good weather, a lull, followed by another glimpse of what's coming and a stretch of cool weather when (don't tell anyone) we put the heating on...
before, at last, it arrives. The Great British Summer, hard to pin down, never punctual — this year it's really kept us waiting — and still we're not quite ready for it. We have the basics, of course, but not those crucial summer-uppers that instantly get you in the zone — the fashion equivalents of the flowers on the table that make your kitchen go from 'any day of the week' to ready for entertaining.
These summer uppers press Go on the clothes we've been waiting to wear for weeks. You don't need all of them, any one of the following will do the trick..
. A summer basket You may be bored of hearing about the joys of summer baskets but, looking at it from another point of view, nothing can drag your summer look back into the overcast months faster than an old dark leather handbag. Lightness is what you get with straw or raffia.
Try Mango for a good straw shopper (£49.99, shop.mango.
com). Or, if you want something smarter, .
