Why your clothes don’t fit
Lessons from the truly stylish.
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People who dress really well are hard-hearted empiricists. When they find something that works well, they figure out why, and they buy more things like it.
PHOTO: PEXELS
Robert Armstrong
One of the awful, if informative, things about being a journalist is that you occasionally appear on video.
On one of these occasions recently, I discovered, to my horror, that my favourite jacket doesn’t fit at all. It’s a beautiful brown glen check with a little thread of purple running through it. I bought it on sale, bringing the price down from unreasonable to merely high. Trying it on, I was pleased; perhaps a little snug?