Flight has left me suffering from style lag.Byline: Emma Johnson GREETINGS. I write this column fresh off the plane from Antigua. Yes I have been getting a little winter sun on my chilly bones in one of the Caribbean's most beautiful islands. There's just one thing ... after travelling for the best part of 15 hours, I feel and look about as a fresh as a pair of old trainers. I have written before about my total inability to travel stylishly and I can report that despite my best efforts, my long haul look is not getting any better. This time I really thought I could nail the supersmart jet setter thing - after all we were doing the journey like the stars, at the front end of the plane (ooh, the beauty of airmiles - the husband's not mine of course). There really was no excuse for arriving looking like I had been packed in my own suitcase. My inspiration for this mission would be top traveller Victoria Beckham. Photographed every week getting off planes, she treats the world's airports like one big fashion show. Where most of us would be happiest in jeans or a Juicy Couture tracksuit track·suit n. A loose-fitting jacket and pants worn by athletes and exercisers usually before and after workouts. tracksuit Noun a warm loose-fitting suit worn by athletes etc., esp. , Mrs B teeters through customs in sixinch Louboutins and slinky slink·y adj. slink·i·er, slink·i·est 1. Stealthy, furtive, and sneaking. 2. Informal Graceful, sinuous, and sleek: wore a slinky outfit to the party. dresses, Hermes bag in hand. She is not the only one. Kylie always looks beautiful at the baggage carousel even after that killer flight back from Oz. Of course the army of hairdressers and make-up artists that both women travel with may have something to do with this. I had read all the magazine advice about travelling stylishly before we went. The fashion editors all say the same thing - wear loose clothing (hmmm... sexy), drink plenty of water, don't drink alcohol on board (didn't manage that one) get plenty of sleep (I barely woke up) oh and there's almost always something about cashmere (I don't own any cashmere, but if I did I am sure that would have been as crumpled as the rest of me by Manchester). To be fair, things weren't too bad on the outward flight. My cardigan, tee-shirt, leggings leg·ging n. 1. A leg covering usually extending from the ankle to the knee and often made of material such as leather or canvas, worn especially by soldiers and workers. 2. leggings a. and gladiator gladiator (Latin; swordsman) Professional combatant in ancient Rome who engaged in fights to the death as sport. Gladiators originally performed at Etruscan funerals, the intent being to give the dead man armed attendants in the next world. sandals combo wouldn't exactly set the catwalk alight but I didn't look too much of a scruff when we landed in the tropics tropics, also called tropical zone or torrid zone, all the land and water of the earth situated between the Tropic of Cancer at lat. 23 1-2°N and the Tropic of Capricorn at lat. 23 1-2°S. . I even remembered to take off my make-up on board and slather slath·er tr.v. slath·ered, slath·er·ing, slath·ers Informal 1. To use or give great amounts of; lavish: slathered gifts and attention on their only child. 2. a. on some moisturiser - the beauty experts swear by this if you want to stop your skin drying out - when we arrived I grabbed my compact for a quick touch up. Coming back was another matter. I don't know whether it was the late-night flight, the lashings of Champagne they kept offering or the fact that I spent the best part of eight hours asleep under a duvet, but I made my way through Manchester airport looking like something you would find at the bottom of your laundry basket. Thankfully though, unlike Posh and Kylie, my slept-in face, puffy eyes and creased clothes are unlikely to be popping up in the pages of Heat magazine any time soon. CAPTION(S): Victoria Beckham arrives at Heathrow |
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