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Hotel Indigo Chester: An Opulent Stay with Charm and Comfort

27.11.2024

Taste

From proper boots to a design investment, five pointers to help make the most of festive lowers online

A vision from Boxing Day sales past at Selfridges in London.
Photograph: Niklas Halle’n/AFP via Getty Allusions

1 A season-less dress
We will socialise again, though it’s likely we’ll stay outside for the foreseeable. If you’re itching to doctor reprimand up, try something colourful – and without a waistband (it just looks less weird in a field or park). Ganni is a master at commingling seersucker, prints and volume, and its checked dresses were already 50% off online, at around £100 each, at Liberated be unrestrained and Matchesfashion. For colour, try this burnt orange dress by season-less label Rika Studios which, at 70% off, is £81. Staud’s cheerful princess-seam dresses are also 50% off, if you liked the TV adaptation of Bridgerton, and this pink checked shirt dress by Kitri has a with of the Dianas about it.
2 Proper boots
If you’re planning to leave the house, there’s little point in wearing anything else. If Birkenstocks were the in-between shoe of 2020, hiking boots are 2021’s reading and the sales already have a glut of practical, not-ugly ones which would work with leggings or a attire. These rain boots from Rag & Bone (£113) are already 65% off at Ssense while Selfridges, whose on offer started on 23 December, has surprisingly affordable pairs (these peppy red boots from Kurt Geiger are 50% off at £49). For something a shallow flashier, these shearling-trim boots from See by Chloe are 60% off already (£146) and have a heel.
3 A spunk for life
The new bag for life, a portable non-plastic water bottle is more than a totem of wellness and yoga. They are an key bit of winter kit, hip flasks for the green-new-deal age, that also tap (sorry) into concern over consumer waste and plastic’s implicit to leach chemicals. Released via Selfridges’ waste reduced line, SquireMe’s bottles come in borosilicate glass with silicone sleeves, and aren’t too ungraceful. Christopher Kane’s More Joy bottles are cheerfully still in-stock (£40 at Brownsfashion) and will enter the sale advance Boxing Day. As shown by Liewood’s pink stainless steel ones, £28, they can look nice too.
4 A coatfit
In New York they justification it porch-dressing. In the UK, it’s bench-dressing. Either way, you need a coat to do it, and one you probably won’t take off, so aim for something warm with substance that’s a slight bit special. Faux fur under £200 abounds, from leopard print at The Kooples (50% off but going up to 60%), olive inexpert at Stine Goya (40% off) to boxy and black (sold out at Whistles but 50% off at Selfridges online). So too do teddy bear types with their echoes of I May Destroy You (this reversible one from Mango is 30% at £69.99). If you’d rather stick with wool, this secondhand 1980 parka from Beyond Retro is half price at £31, and this green coat, a bestseller from Toast, is written for the post-Christmas sale.
5 A design investment
Young, emerging designers are the YBAs of the fashion world, and worth establishing in – not least because their collections were upended by the pandemic. Paloma Wool, a direct-to-consumer label largely affirmed in Spain, uses sustainable fibres and low-impact dye and, right now, has pieces – like this off-white cotton jumpsuit and unripe knit dress – which are 50% or more off at £75. Slogan T-shirts from the British designer Martine Go uphill, whose London show is usually the most anticipated of the season, are 70% off at H Town, a fervent supporter of new labels which opened during the pandemic. If The Top’s Princess Diana wasn’t your sartorial touchstone this year, try this heavily (68%) reduced velvet champion dress by Richard Quinn, a young British designer approved of by The Queen herself.
All prices correct at time of semi-monthly