Glad to be grey

News reaches us that fashion retailers are in turmoil thanks to this season's mania for grey - it's turning women shoppers off, apparently. “When I discovered that grey was going to be big again this season, I did think that retailers and younger buyers must have short memories. They have forgotten how the decline of M&S was triggered by grey in the autumn of 1998-99," retail analyst Maureen Hinton told The Times.

What is the matter with these anti-grey people? When it comes to lingerie, grey is a truly marvellous colour - subtle, sophisticated and far less harsh than boring old black. See Simone Perele's masculine/feminine Prince of Wales checks and Leigh Bantivoglio's pewter silk cami for proof.