I have never had much faith in my dress sense. Over recent years I have largely given up on buying clothes for myself and have instead relied on the taste of family members to restock my wardrobe biannually at Christmas and on my birthday. Being now in my sixties and no longer in possession of any form of youthful rizz, I had presumed that I was a lost sartorial cause.
Then last week I took my daughter to South Korea visit her older sister who was spending some time there. To give us a bit of local colour (literally) the older daughter suggested a visit to a colour analyst. She had done a consultation herself the week before and pronounced the results life-changing. A colour analyst (for the benefit of people, such as me, who had never previously heard of such a profession) is a person who analyses your skin, hair and eye colour to determine what clothes will best suit you. This knowledge came as a revelation to me. I had assumed that knowing how to dress well was totally a matter of taste and aesthetic instinct. I had no idea that there was a proper body of science underlying it.