‘One can never have too many pairs of jeans’ - Lise Hand on why you shouldn’t clear out your wardrobe
This is an ode to keeping stuff, to not stoically placing every redundant garment in a charity shop-bound sack while muttering about being too old/too Rubenesque/too respectable to wear it anymore
I took a bribe, once, though it wasn’t intentional. Back in the last century, while blissfully employed as a music critic for a national newspaper, a chap had me plagued to check out a fledgling rock band he was promoting. “Please. I’ll buy you anything you want,” he beseeched. In genuine jest, I replied that my soul could always be bought for a pair of Doc Martens, black, size 7.
But I liked the chap ...
