The one trick Nigella Lawson makes use of to make each outfit flattering – and it really works for everybody

Hands up in the event you’re critically struggling to attend for the following season of The Great British Bake Off. If, like us, your arms are firmly within the air, we anticipate that’s not less than partly all the way down to the addition of Nigella Lawson as a choose.

We all love Nigella, proper? Not only for her unbelievable cooking (to today, I nonetheless depend on her years-old brownie recipe for anybody’s birthday or an workplace bake-off) however her total being – so it is sensible that we’re full of pleasure on the prospect of her being on our screens weekly. Will she rename one other equipment, as she did the meecro-wah-vay? What will she put on? Just how attractive will GBBO’s traditional innuendos turn into?

While we await affirmation of the discharge date of the primary episode (all we all know to date is that it’s this month), we’ve been eagerly consuming all of the first-look images and movies of the brand new season. And in doing this, we’ve observed one thing: for her GBBO wardrobe, Nigella is sticking to at least one easy rule.

That rule? Always, all the time, cinch within the waist.

It’s a trick Nigella has used for years – in the event you have a look at images of her outfits, you’ll discover the bulk have a fitted waist, which accentuates an hourglass form – however it’s turn into significantly obvious not too long ago. That’s as a result of, moderately than choosing clothes with a tighter waist, for GBBO her outfits so far have caught to a easy components: a jumpsuit plus a belt on the waist in the identical color.

First off, within the first official picture of the brand new Bake Off line-up – that’s Nigella, Paul Hollywood, Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding – Nigella opted for a black jumpsuit (we consider it’s by Finery London), full with an identical belt, buckled and with the tip looped again for a neat end.

Then, in promo movies for the present, Nigella has worn a purple jumpsuit by Me & Em… once more with a wonderfully matching belt. And once more, it’s not simply buckled, however the finish is looped again by way of.

Wearing a belt with a jumpsuit or gown in the very same color is genius on a number of ranges. Any belt will do the trick of pulling within the waist whereas leaving the remainder of the piece looser, creating an hourglass impact even for these of us who aren’t fortunate sufficient to have Nigella’s proportions. But a belt in the very same color because the merchandise upon which you’re sporting it features to make the wearer look taller, too. As it’s all one color, there are not any interrupting horizontal strains, unconsciously drawing the attention up, moderately than throughout.

When we are saying this can be a trick that works for everybody, we imply it. And when you turn into conscious of it, you’ll discover a great deal of celebs utilizing the very same methodology. Scroll again as much as that promo picture – Alison Hammond’s at it, too! And, as confirmed by Alison, the approach isn’t restricted to jumpsuits alone. Any gown that’s pulled in on the waist will do the very same factor.

We’ll have to attend and see if Nigella’s belted jumpsuit combo can be her uniform for the whole lot of the brand new GBBO season (we hope so, particularly if she continues the development of matching her make-up to the jumpsuit’s color, too), however we’d place a assured wager that regardless of the cook dinner wears, the waist can be cinched.

Plus, we’re more likely to see repeat wears. Nigella’s beforehand stated that she and trend ‘can never be friends’, and that she prefers a ‘uniform’ to keep away from the frazzled ‘What do I wear today?’ morning panic. ‘When I do find something that fits or flatters, I bulk-buy and wear it year in, year out,’ she wrote in a column for The Sunday Times. ‘I don’t thoughts how usually I am going out sporting the identical factor.’

Rightly so, we are saying. Once you discover a components that works, why stray?