Maeve Higgins: A missive from the trenches of high fashion

Raincoats and big woolly coats are useful, but nothing is as versatile and smart as a trench coat.

This column is not, let me repeat that, not an advice column. Whatever I write here must never be taken as instruction or even guidance, particularly this week.

I’m investigating what to wear for spring, and I expect I will get it entirely wrong. I look down at the evidence before me, my own outfit as I sit here at the kitchen table on my laptop. I’m wearing pyjama pants, a T-shirt with the band Nirvana on it, flip flops, and an Aran cardigan. Behind her huge sunglasses, Anna Wintour might grimace at such a sight. Or perhaps she would be in thrall to the clash and spontaneity of my early morning look.