Reader, I write this to you braless, and I have a sneaking suspicion that you might be, too. Either that or, according to the suggestion of recent sales figures, you’re in something very special and lacy.
The most relevant fashion divide is no longer flats vs heels or tights vs bare legs, but the exquisitely sensual bra versus no bra at all.
Three weeks into lockdown, the women of Britain have worked out which fashion fripperies we need to get by, and those which are surplus to requirements.
Earrings, mascara, excellent loungewear and wafty dresses have proven their comfort-meets-mood-boosting worth, but bras – especially the hoicking, underwired sorts that we gleefully tore off at the end of a long day out in the world BC – have not made