Many items we wear today have fashion names that have origins in fashion history long since forgotten. Think about Raglan and the raglan sleeve or Spencer and the spencer jacket, fashion icons can talk about them greatly and ghastly for hours. Today, fashion has grown to spark conversations between designers and customers the world over.
So summer is here at its hottest and the compulsion to shed my clothes and lounge around my poolside all day like a beached whale is almost impossible to resist. Just when I think, ‘surely it can’t get any hotter than this’, the mercury rises a few more degrees