‘I’ll be wearing full Met Gala looks to the pub’: how we’ll get dressed after lockdown

Longing to get your glad rags on - or fully converted to the tracksuit? Fashion insiders reveal their lockdown looks and predict what we'll be wearing post-pandemic

Picture this: the very first celebratory night out you will have when the vaccine sets us free. Maybe you're in a fancy restaurant, maybe your local pub. Cosy around a friend's kitchen table, or on a packed dancefloor. What are you wearing? Are you desperate to wriggle back into a party dress and brave your highest heels? Or have sweatpants spoilt you for anything that doesn't have an elasticated waistband and a fleece lining?

For a year, most of us have had the same hobbies (Netflix and going to the park) and as a result have worn pretty much the same thing (loungewear and puffer jackets). But post-vaccine, we are set to split into two style tribes. For every 21st-century swell desperate to re-enact the roaring 20s, there is someone who has found solace in the soft textures of lockdown. Culture responds to trauma in a kaleidoscope of ways. After all, in the first half of the decade that followed the first world war and the Spanish flu pandemic, F Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, while TS Eliot wrote The Waste Land.