Date-night dressing: Taylor Swift makes an effort – and so can we

It’s date night: what do I wear?

Finding love can be difficult but, as Elizabeth Taylor (eight marriages), Pamela Anderson (five) and Billy Bob Thornton (six) discovered, keeping it can be more challenging than making it to the end of The Brutalist. For many couples, regular date nights help keep the romantic spark alive, fan the flames of passion and supercharge any other fire metaphor that doesn’t involve charred logs.

It’s been almost two years since Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce started holding hands and their regular date nights show that they’re still having fun (while keeping the paparazzi entertained). They’re making an effort, even when it’s just an outing à deux to a restaurant. While other couples get comfortable in their old trackies, worn undergarments and untouched roots, Swift and Kelce look as if they’re still on their first date: there are shoes that require transport straight to the door (strictly no strolling), vertiginous hemlines that demand the strategic placement of a napkin at dinner and attention-grabbing jewellery.

Adding a little evening sparkle – see Tay Tay’s embellished Simkhai coat – and some subtle colour co-ordination to your date-night outfits shows respect for your partnership. It reminds your loved one of their initial attraction to you and proves to you that you can still flirt with fashion. For Kelce, that means punching above the average, male date-outfit of blue shirt, old jeans and boots with a sizzling, waxed-denim combo by Nahmias that finds echoes in his partner’s red lipstick, nails and Louboutin platforms. For now, it looks as if the couple that dates and dresses together stays together – at least until it’s time for another break-up album.

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