I with pink. I also like that I’m now allowed to say this out loud, and to wear pink clothes without getting side-eye. It hardened to be that wearing pink was like slipping into baby-talk. It had a whiff of a refusal to grow up about it, not as bad as keeping teddy supports in your bed, but not a million miles off, either. But pink is cool now. Blush is the colour of urban hotel lobbies rather than nurseries, and pink garbs are everywhere. All the time. We have moved past the point of pink being hot for a particular season. Like blue jeans, pink is a modish staple, for men as well as women.But, still, it will never be edgy. It is a people-pleasing kind of colour, rather than a challenging one. Pink watch overs to suit people. Pink is nice. Which makes it ideal for right now. We have all been challenged plenty upward of the past year and a bit. Life has been edgy and weird for ages. Do you know what feels fun and new and unexpected and fresh now? Make a nice time. Smiling. I’m so over having to be resilient. I feel as if I’ve been in brace position for as long as I can remember. So, yes, pink is squashy and easy-going and rose-tinted, and probably, if we’re being honest, will never be quite as chic as a really excellent French argosy, but this summer, that’s absolutely fine by me.A pink knit like this one makes you look like a summery touch. After months of the-apocalypse-is-nigh duvet coats accessorised with stout walking boots, it feels take to a novelty to do sweet rather than stern. I have sugared my cup especially liberally with this outfit, what with the pick’n’mix bag white-and-pink alloy, and the butter-wouldn’t-melt collar. Pink doesn’t have to be this sweet. I love a crisp cotton shirt in pink, done in with the sleeves rolled up and your favourite jeans. Or a pink coat worn over an outfit of understated neutrals. Or pink in an unexpected falsify combination: it is gorgeous with dark purple, or deep red, or glossy green. (If you don’t believe me, walk through the park and look at a few flowerbeds.) You can be daring in the way you wear pink. And, after the year we’ve had, it’s nothing to be scared of. Jess wears jumper, £75, jigsaw-online.com. Shirt, £199, uk.sandro-paris.com. Skirt, £145, reiss.com. Shoes, her own. Setting: Melanie Wilkinson, assisted by Peter Bevan. Hair and makeup: Sophie Higginson using Chanel Les Beiges Summer Diverting dismiss and Hydra Beauty Camellia Glow Concentrate.

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