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How middle class is your holiday wardrobe? The new summer status symbols

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Either a Loewe basket bag, with Anagram leather patch, or the newer Fold shopper, which collapses into a neat and very easy-to-pack square. The Dior Book tote, Prada crochet bags and Chloe raffia versions will also elicit maximum swag points.

“At Hurr, the Loewe basket bag has been consistently in the top three most rented bags for summer in a range of sizes and colours – it’s one of the holiday ‘It’ bags this year,” says Victoria Prew, the founder of the peer-to-peer fashion rental platform.

“We have seen a major uplift in rentals of beach bags and accessories, with people renting for 14 days and 30 days for their holidays, not just the summer dress.”

The crinkle swimwear

On my Greek break, you couldn’t move for crinkle bikinis and swimsuits. Hunza G is the pioneer of this look: the brand has been around since the 1980s as Hunza, but it got a powerful reboot and its “G” initial when Georgiana Huddart took the helm in 2015.

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