But the way fashion works means that, in many cases, those will have been inspired by (or, indeed, copied from) a rugby shirt that someone in the design team has brought in, perhaps from their own wardrobe, perhaps from their dad’s, perhaps from a charity shop.
The rugby shirt picks up where the three-button polo shirt left off, but with added fashion content – stripes, fun collars, a contrast white collar.
Pre-loved helps you make good choices because you get a more accurate sense of how jeans will fit when they’ve relaxed in the way that denim always does over the first few wears, and enables you to judge whether a bag will lose its appeal once it gets the corners knocked off a little.
Sometimes it looks far better | Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion Forget tatty cast-offs – the secondhand marketplace is now the first port of call for the savvy shopper.
Many of fashion’s hottest pieces this year look better secondhand than they do new.
