Dressing For The Upside Down: How Fashion Can Be A Tether In Troubling Times

Sometimes garments only become emblematic of a given period with hindsight. Sometimes it can happen as fast as a dash to the charity shop. I knew we’d passed the peak of the pandemic, at least emotionally, the day I jettisoned my lockdown trousers. Calling them ‘trousers’ seems grand – they were low-rise, cropped, wide-leg grey...