When you’re blessed with having a job that means you spend at least part of your time shopping for a living, you see a lot of stuff. However, our jobs as editors working for a fashion website mean that we often spend time working out what is and what isn’t worth your cash. Right now, that feels more important to get right, what with budgets being tighter and customers wanting pieces that work harder for them—essentially longer-lasting items that still nod to trends but aren’t defined by them. There’s no denying that it can be a tricky couple of criteria to fill.
But, as I already mentioned, as fashion insiders this is what we do. For this month, I asked several of our editors what’s on their shopping lists for summer. While it’s still pretty brisk out there (hats off to anyone who’s perfected the art of al fresco dressing already), we’re all very much looking ahead to when we can finally, finally, cast off the puffer coat and put on our favourite midi dresses and sunnies. Unsurprisingly, several of our editors picked sunglasses as a key item on their lists for the season and midi dresses also cropped up a lot. But for those who aren’t quite there yet, there are plenty of jeans that are great for a more transitional wardrobe and fun tops that are going to look great for when we no longer have to wear coats. Keep scrolling for our editors’ summer 2021 shopping picks…
