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Fashion around Oxford: India Matthews

India Matthews, president of the Oxford Fashion Society, shares her style secrets and where she’s shopping right now. Cherwell’s style inspiration of the week is India Matthews, a third-year English...

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Styling by the book: Oxford’s secret fashion rules

It often feels as if the so-called ‘Oxford bubble’ is full of binaries: commoners...

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Cultural fashion at the Queen’s confluence dinner

Not often do I get to break out the Middle Eastern kaftan hanging idle...

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Common threads: Historical fashion and its lessons for our time

When we think of historical fashion, images of towering wigs, tight-laced corsets, heavy brocades...

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"It's very easy to criticise and cringe at old pictures of yourself, wondering how your mum ever let you leave the house in your most treasured white ripped ‘joni jeans’"

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"After an incredible sold-out 2023 show, The Oxford Fashion Gala is back for 2024, so get the date in your diary (W3 TT24!)"

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"Corsets boast a captivating history spanning centuries, originally worn to sculpt the female silhouette."

Saltburn: a Mid-Noughties Fashion Revival

"It seems necessary to dissect Fennell’s portrayal of noughties trends to see what deserves to return, and what ought to be left in the past."

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The Unwritten (Until Now) Oxford Dress Code

Liberated from the constraints of school uniforms and dress codes, University is a wonderful time of fashion freedom. But this bewildering independence can be...

Why Oxford’s Fashion Gala was better than the Met’s

'The line of reporters and photographers asking the same questions to uncomfortable-looking celebrities, who try to recollect why Lagerfeld was in fact their personal hero, makes for tortuous watching.'

Inside the Oxford fashion scene: the Fashion Gala designers

'I spoke to some of the Fashion Gala designers, who told me about their background in the world of fashion and design, their pieces for this year’s gala, and where they find their inspiration.'

The shift towards online thrift: a guide

'It is okay to deliberately buy fast-fashion second-hand since it is already in circulation and will not constitute to financially supporting unethical practices. Honestly, the longer it avoids landfill the better.'

“Buy less, choose well” – the return of the Oxford Fashion Gala

'This Trinity, the Fashion Gala is back, for a reprise on an evening of patchwork, glamour and campiness, all within walking distance of the RadCam.'

‘Cozzie livs’ core: recession fashion trends

'If mankind has established one thing in the recent years of pestilence and political disarray, it is that anything can become a fashion aesthetic.'

Hooked on Hooks? Thoughts on the current crochet craze

"Whether you are a crochet novice or a hardened hooker, here are my top five tips for crocheters."

Dressing for the Job

"We deserve a standardised law that demands equality and consistency in the workplace instead of hoping that employers deign to allow comfortable, practical alternatives to old-fashioned suits and gendered dichotomies."

‘Originality is overrated, but we do it anyway’ Creativity in Cosplay

"There is something freeing in making art which has no commercial value"

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Fashion

Fashion around Oxford: India Matthews

Styling by the book: Oxford’s secret fashion rules

Cultural fashion at the Queen’s confluence dinner

Common threads: Historical fashion and its lessons for our time

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