, you're not alone. Marks & Spencer reports that searches for thermals are up by 400%, dressing gowns up by 110%. Sales of its Teddy Fleece Hooded Blanket are up by 283% and it's the most viewed item on the site. Its high tech Heatgen Fleece has also seen a leap by 340% from last year. At John Lewis, sales of onesies are up 235%, while hot water bottle sales have surged 300%, as well as faux fur and slippers rocketing too. Danish brand Glerups, makers of sublimely cosy slippers, have seen a huge boom in sales across the whole of Europe. Clearly, we're hunkering down. Here, our two stylish fashion editors explain how to look chic and cosy – however nippy it is in your home. Menswear to stay snug I don't know about you, but after the pandemic I couldn't bear to look at a pair of slouchy old joggers again. Sometime during one of the (many) dark days of the winter lockdowns, I resolved that my post-Covid wardrobe would sit somewhere between Gatsby and glam rock; no shrugged-on hoodies and old trackie trousers. And yet here we are, facing a winter of discontent like no other, with soaring energy bills and freak snow storms due to sweep the country next month. Like many of us, I'm refusing to kowtow to the energy companies and their shameful profiteering; the central heating's staying firmly off chez Doig this winter. Call it a very middle-class two fingers up to Putin, by way of woolly Boden jumpers. Thanks to a childhood brought up in dreich Scotland (and visits to an uncle on a draughty croft on the wind-lashed Isle of Skye, where the carpets would lift off the ground), I'm no stranger to cold weather, and it seems consumers across the nation are similarly inclined to cover-up and make do instead of turning up the thermostat. That said, I'm also allergic to the weird cottage industry that's arisen around infantilising sofa-wear; adults in overgrown babygrows,){kind=link}
Our two stylish fashion editors explain how to look chic and cosy – however nippy it is in your house
If you’re fixating on how to stay warm and cosy without switching on the heating (despite the temperature drop), you’re not alone.
Marks & Spencer reports that searches for thermals are up by 400%, dressing gowns up by 110%. Sales of its Teddy Fleece Hooded Blanket are up by 283% and it’s the most viewed item on the site. Its high tech Heatgen Fleece has also seen a leap by 340% from last year.
At John Lewis, sales of onesies are up 235%, while hot water bottle sales have surged 300%, as well as faux fur and slippers rocketing too. Danish brand Glerups, makers of sublimely cosy slippers, have seen a huge boom in sales across the whole of Europe.
Clearly, we’re hunkering down. Here, our two stylish fashion editors explain how to look chic and cosy – however nippy it is in your home.