Caroline O'Donoghue: How to get back that teenage feeling when you feel old

— good God, haven’t so many unreasonable requests been made of us, in the last two years?

Revisit the clothes you couldn’t wear when you were young, but desperately wanted to, either because you were broke or insecure or because Cork didn’t have a Topshop yet

I was at a birthday party the other day when I was stricken with a deep flush of clothes envy.

Sitting in a box, all shiny and new, a gift to the host from one of her friends, was a pair of glitter jelly mules studded with plastic daisies. I couldn’t take my eyes off them. They were like something an eight year old would have, but for a grown woman.