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This week the edit is all about dressing for that heat. Satin shirts and slip-easy silk shorts, the swimsuit you can wear to lunch, a striped tee that does all the work, buttery suede mules and a couple of pieces that look like they’ve wandered straight out of a lingerie drawer. Lots of cream and chocolate brown, a flash of cherry red, an aegean blue that’s pure holiday, and a pistachio to finish, like an ice cream at the end of it all.

If you caught last week’s edit, you’ll have noticed pendant necklaces popping up in pretty much every styling recommendation. So this week, I thought I’d make it official and bring you a proper pendant edit. . . and the best part? Every single one is under £50. Because honestly, a pendant necklace is the easiest thing you can add to an outfit right now. It’s the difference between a great outfit and a finished one.

Hello from Sydney, where I’m bundled up and wore my puff jacket for the first time yesterday waaaaaaah, thinking of you lot and the glorious heatwave. This one is entirely high street, proof you don’t need to spend a fortune to look like you did. There’s a lot of check and gingham, a few very clever skirts, the kitten-heel flip flop I’m calling the find of the summer, and enough easy tops to see you through every warm day. Let’s get into it. Angie’s Substack is a reader-supported publication.

My second collection with The Upside, the Souvenirs Collection, and it’s everything I love poured into one drop. It started with that feeling you get bringing something home from a trip, the ticket stub, the matchbook, the little token that holds a whole holiday inside it, and grew into a world of red and cream and soft grey, embroidered arrows, horseshoes, Two Hearts and Endless Love.

Hello from Sydney, this week is a proper new-in haul: 20 pieces including everything I would want to pack if I were heading to the sunshine, a lot of crochet, a little terry, silk trousers that do all your dressing-up for you, and the chic rubber flip flop I’ll be living in. High street and designer sitting happily side by side, as they should. Stay with me to the very end, because I’ve finally got news I’ve been sitting on for weeks. Let’s get into it.

The grosgrain trim is doing a lot of work here. . . it takes what could be a very simple short and gives it just enough of an edge. Pima cotton, so they'll feel good too. I'd wear these with everything – a white tee, a linen shirt. Both colours will work equally as hard in your wardrobe this summer.

Hello from Sydney, where I’m pulling jumpers back out and you lot are finally getting the proper summer you’ve been promised. So this week is all about dressing for the heat without losing the plot: easy whites, a swimsuit that photographs, two dresses worth saving up for, and the kind of basics that quietly hold a wardrobe together.

Rewind to last year. A t-shirt arrived, as things do when this is what you do, and almost without me noticing it became the one. I started wearing it with my favourite white linen shorts. Not off-white, not ecru, the really white ones, the pair so crisp they make every other tee in my drawer look faintly grubby and a little embarrassed of itself. Every white tee I owned looked dingy next to them. Except this one.

There is a particular kind of clarity that arrives when most of your life is in a storage unit. I’m 6 weeks into a house-sit, which means I’ve been forced finally, properly, to practice what I preach: a capsule. Not the aspirational, perfectly-edited version I’d photograph for here, but the real thing. Angie’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Continue reading this post for free, courtesy of Angie Smith.

I’m writing this from Sydney, where it has rained solidly for days on end, while all of you UK folk, by all accounts, are melting through a proper heatwave. Sending this with a little envy and a lot of cold-shower thoughts. This week the edit leans into the heat. Slip dresses, satin trousers, towelling shorts, the lightest linen tees, a few pieces that look more expensive than they are, and a couple that look borrowed straight from a lingerie drawer.