Fashion

Jumpsuits are still happening

 

Wear a jumpsuit, feel sassy in a Solange kind of way. Photograph: Josh Brasted/WireImage

Remember when jumpsuits were first a thing, a couple of years ago, and we all thought they would be a flash-in-the-pan, like the pink coat or the wedge trainer? Here we are, with the pink coat and the wedge trainer dead and buried, and the jumpsuit still going strong. The appeal of the jumpsuit is primarily an attitude thing: it instantly makes you feel sassy in a Beyoncé/Solange kind of a way. Also, it’s as easy as a dress but you feel less exposed, and you don’t have to agonise over the tights/no tights issue. (For the record: no tights. No one ever died of cold ankles.) Now that the jumpsuit is ubiquitous on the shopfloor, the trick is making it look standout: for that, your style icons are Marie Helvin and Jerry Hall, working the sassy-jumpsuit look nearly 40 years ago (and definitely having a good time at parties).