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The Guardian
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: Want a style update? Pull your socks up!
If you get food in your teeth at dinner, you want someone to let you know, right? Of course you do. It is so annoying to realise on a bathroom break, after pudding, that for the past two hours you have been unwittingly showing the remains of your starter with every smile. The Guardian's journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. However. It is also undeniably the case that when someone does the right thing, letting you know that you might want to check a mirror, that moment can be awkward. Especially if you don't know each other well, the spinach-eater might feel embarrassed and flustered and even, irrationally, a bit cross. To be clear, dear reader, you don't have anything in your teeth that I am aware of. The point I am trying to establish is that if something about your look isn't working, and you haven't noticed, then a friend who points this out is doing the right thing. Right? Hold that thought. Now look down at your feet and ankles. Are you wearing white trainers with bare ankles? Five years ago, white trainers and bare ankles, with either a midi-dress or an ankle-length jean, was a great look. But now, it makes you look dated. Next time you are out, look around you, and you will notice that no one under 30 wears this any more. It has become a very middle-aged look. The 21st-century equivalent of going out in a house coat. Now, there is absolutely nothing wrong with middle-age. I am in my 50s, and proud of it, and very much not about to start dressing like a teenager. But white trainers and bare ankles are not where style is at any more. I'm just trying to be helpful. This is all extremely discombobulating. It wasn't that long ago that this look was cool. Phoebe Philo wore it. Rihanna wore it. Michelle Obama wore it. A flat white shoe with a flash of ankle was the definitive grown-up-but-still-got-it signoff, and it worked with any outfit. It was neat without being twee, casual but still elegant. But unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past year, you will have noticed the stratospheric rise of the sock. Generation Z love a sock. Socks – sporty, ribbed, marl, but very much designed to be seen – are where fashion is at. This has been bewildering to those of us who came of age in an era when the only acceptable socks were ones designed to make it look as if you weren't wearing any. Let's break this down. You can still wear a white trainer, but it will look more modern now if it's a bit chunky. If you love a trainer with a neat profile, you can stick with the shape, but switch to colour. Either way, you need to wear socks. You can swap trainers for loafers, which have a similar silhouette to an old-school sleek trainer – but, yes, you guessed it, still socks. A bare ankle is just not cute. Am I exaggerating? A little, yes. The flat white and no-socks look has not yet disappeared. But then, people still wear fascinators to weddings and it doesn't make them acceptable. The Duchess of Cambridge still wears white trainers and no socks with floral dresses, but a) to be fair, she's probably had more pressing matters to contend with over the past year, and b) while she always looks charming, I'm not sure she's exactly our north star here. On the school run, this look is starting to give … velvet alice band, if you know what I mean. The good news is that, when you get your eye in, wearing a different shoe and teaming it with a sock is an easy, cost-effective and practical way to update your wardrobe. Socks are inexpensive, and comfortable. Sign up to Inside Saturday The only way to get a look behind the scenes of the Saturday magazine. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend. after newsletter promotion Seriously, I'm not trying to get you into a cropped top here, guys, lighten up. You can wear a bouncy white trainer with a ribbed sport sock, while a black loafer looks pleasingly dandyish with a fine white sock, or elegant with a ribbed sock in a neutral. You are free to ignore me, of course. But I thought you would want to know. Hair and makeup: Delilah Blakeney using Olaplex and Nars. Model: Jen at Milk Management. T-shirt, £170, Alemais. Shorts, £78, and necklace, £48, Anthropologie. Loafers, £295, Russell & Bromley. Socks, £8.99, HM
News.com.au
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
‘Falling to bits': Tom Hardy's devastating health update
Tom Hardy says his body is 'falling to bits' now that he's middle-aged. The Dark Knight Rises actor, 47, discussed all of his latest ailments in a recent interview with Esquire. 'I got dizzy today,' he told the outlet. 'I took a Sudafed and it's starting to work, so I feel better, but in the interviews I was sitting there, and you know when you feel not right, but you can't tell someone you don't feel right?' He then joked about potentially passing out during the interview before explaining the other health burdens he's been dealing with — after years as an action star. 'I've had two knee surgeries now, my disc's herniated in my back, I've got sciatica as well,' he shared. 'And I have that… is it plantar fasciitis? Where did that come from? And why? Why?!' Hardy added that he also pulled a tendon in his hip. 'It's like, it's all falling to bits now, and it's not going to get better,' he said. The Inception star then reflected on some of the medical advances he is open to exploring. When asked if he would consider doing stem cell treatment, he replied, 'Probably, yeah.' 'I think if it comes down to the wire and it seems the sensible thing to do and I take advice,' he continued, before diving into other medical things, including custom homoeopathic treatments like 'tinctures.' 'This is the biopsy of where we're at: two vapes, somebody else's clothes, and a hotel room that neither of us feels comfortable in!' he told the reporter, referring to their sit-down at a swanky hotel. Despite his struggles, Hardy has stayed committed to keeping up with his fitness by doing jiu-jitsu. 'I did the posturing bit of boxing and hitting mitts, and trying to be a bloke,' he said. 'But ultimately I was sort of scared of blokes, because there's so many of them, and there's always one stronger than you.' He continued, 'You know, somehow you're supposed to be able to look after yourself in this wicked world, but in a numbers game it's not possible to be the strongest. So eventually I was like, 'Just have a go, who cares who wins.' And of course I care who wins, but you spend the first couple of years trying to forget it. You're not winning anything. It's very humiliating, in the right way.' Hardy, who earned his purple belt, called the martial art 'a submission sport.' 'It's about stopping your opponent. They submit to defeat, or you choke them, shutting off the carotid artery so the blood doesn't go to the brain,' he explained. 'But once you isolate a limb — an arm or a leg — and put pressure through the joint, and it's correctly applied, you needn't go any further. It's a fait accompli. It's done. You are done. Only your ego will take you any further.'
Daily Mail
11-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
Doctors say EVERY man over 50 should do these daily exercises to boost your sex life and beat frequent urination. Here's EXACTLY how - and the truth about the £13 gadget that promises to solve your bedroom issues
Middle-aged men are being bombarded with social media ads for bizarre-looking exercise machines that makers claim can solve everything from poor bedroom performance to frequent urination. The pop-ups on Facebook and Instagram suggest these 'kegel trainer' devices – which are held between the thighs and squeezed to strengthen the muscles in the pelvis – will make users 'a monster in bed', 'boost testosterone' and 'halt embarrassing leaks'.
