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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

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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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Culture

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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