Article 5HB71 Could you wear a dress for 100 days?

Could you wear a dress for 100 days?

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Emma Beddington
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When Emma Beddington took part in a challenge to wear the same dress for 100 days, she wasn't expecting to feel the positive force of sisterhood alongside a few neat cleaning hacks

Could you wear the same thing for 100 days? I could, because I don't care about clothes. I do not like how they look on me, a 46-year-old woman whose hobbies are cake and sitting still, so I stick to navy or green trousers in summer and black trousers in winter, coupled with plain tops and jumpers. I suppose that could be chic, or ingenious, a Zuckerberg-esque Silicon Valley hack, but it's neither. It's just a bit depressing.

Sometimes my best friend sends me links to clothes she likes - slinky silk dresses, pretty tops - and I say, I can totally imagine you in that." I can, but I can't imagine myself in anything other than my tedious uniform. My ugly jumpers and toothpaste-stained trousers are hate dressing" I fear, a widely reported pandemic phenomenon in which you wear things you do not even like as a sort of fabric protest against the general awfulness of everything.

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