High-street fashion needn’t be landfill fodder –if you choose your clothes well | Jess Cartner-Morley

It's not about the price. Some of my most treasured pieces are inexpensive, and bought years ago from the likes of Topshop

My favourite pair of black trousers came from Jigsaw almost five years ago. I can date them because I was on my way to the cinema to see the Frances McDormand film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which I remember because I left the bag containing them under my seat in the cinema and had to jump off the bus and run back - and Google tells me that the film was released in January 2018. I think they cost around 60.

I paid less than that for the ivory silk shirt I'm wearing with them today, which I bought from Marks & Spencer in 2016 from a collection curated by Alexa Chung. My leather belt is from Gap and may well be older than either of my children, one of whom is at university.