Thanks To Kate Middleton (And The High Street) Tweed Is Having A Major Fashion Moment

If you don’t go on shooting weekends, and aren’t a pupil at an Upper East Side prep school, you shouldn’t be buying into the tweed trend, right? Wrong, my friends, because the high street has gone big on the posh set’s favourite fabric for spring - and there’s nothing country bumpkin about the results.

Uterqüe has a cream-and-gold two-piece that has a buttoned-up appeal without being too butter-wouldn’t-melt. I’d wear the blazerwith jeans, the wide-leg trousers with cashmere knitwear, and the full shebang for important meetings.

Sandro has a denim-trimmed, apricot-coloured tweed minidress that just needs a pair of Converse trainers, while Zara’s bottle green bomber with gold buttons would work with either wide-leg jeans or leather trousers.

The Duchess of Cambridge, a firm tweed fan, cracked out her skirt suit by Dolce & Gabbana for this week’s visit to a children’s hospital in London. Maje’s version has a little more Sixties style, and stops a good few inches above the knee, but wouldn’t it look fabulous with patent knee-high boots and a polo neck?

The tweed looks, naturally, came in thick and fast at Chanel’s SS20 show, with several new-season styling tips. Tweed is a stone’s throw from twee so look for slouchy, elongated silhouettes. Zara has an oversized gilet that fits the bill, and is much nicer than it sounds on paper, while & Other Stories’s apple green belted blazer is a little more forgiving than waist-cropped styles.

Our parting advice? Leave the riding boots, pearls and flat cap at home.

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