I’ve been doing a fair bit of travelling around the UK and Europe recently and it strikes me that unless you’re in the middle of a very arty, alternative area, everyone dresses pretty much the same. In a nation obsessed with chain stores like Ikea and Primark, we are all in danger of looking and living identically, so I say it’s time we burst out and find our individuality. This is not the Stepford Wives. This is not Levittown, the samiest suburb in history. Indeed, the fact you are reading Simply Sewing means that, like me, you are striving for unique style.
The same goes for decorating our homes. I’ve just come back from Florence in Italy, where, whilst driving around, lost, in the depths of the night, we came…
