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The high street rocks

June 20, 2011 10:13

ByJan Shure, Jan Shure

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The high street may be coming under the scrutiny of Mary Portas in her role as High Street Tsarina, but for savvy women across the UK, the high street is already their first stop when hunting down fabulous, fashion forward clothing and accessories.

It was at a dinner party a fewweeks ago that I suddenly registered the seismic shift that has taken place in our perception of the UK High Street. It was at a very ritzy little dinner and one of the (very stylish) female guests was not only wearing a Zara silk top and happy to own up to it, but was also holding forth on the virtues of high street fashion, in particular Zara and, shock horror, Primark.

Curiously - and this demonstrates the huge switch in attitude - there were no sounds of Riedel claret glasses smashing or jaws hitting the table top, because most clever, confident women shop on the high street these days, even those who could readily afford to flash their plastic on Bond Street and Sloane Street.

They may not wear high street head to toe, but they are happy to mix their J-Brand skinny jeans with a Mango top, or to team a little dress from Topshop with a pair of Ferragamo ballerinas or Rupert Sanderson heels.