Basics.
Essential for every wardrobe and something I totally fail at. In an ideal world I would own a drawer of neatly folded, well cut t-shirts and own a couple of pairs of perfect fitting trousers, and perhaps a shift dress and pencil skirt to complement this.

In reality, I don’t. Partly because I’m attracted to prints, hate buying trousers and just generally get carried away whilst shopping…but also because I never seem to find those essential items.

Trousers never hang right, either so low cut you can see everything, or so high I channel Simon Cowell. Skirts are always an inch shy of too short, or too long..and shift dresses never sit quite so. We won’t start on how fussy I am over t-shirts; in the past I’ve dismissed them for being too thick a cotton, too thin, too clingy, not clingy enough….it goes on.

It’s back to school time, and whilst my school days have long gone, it does seem an ideal time to get my wardrobe sorted for a new start….

So my question for this sunny Saturday is….where oh where do you find your basics? Am I the only one who struggles, or am I simply the wrong shape, the wrong height, or too damn fussy?

Is it worth spending more on the plainer items in life?

xxx