INSTEP Magzine

This winter, it's all about stealth wealth - the look of class with understated sharp and smart suits and dresses with touches of tailoring.

For those who loathe urban looks this is your chance to have revenge. Uptown girls will quickly adopt this class act where understated, but expensive day clothes combined with great, yet natural looking personal grooming recreates a polished appearance. These clothes have couture like elements with flourishes that say glamour.

Grey along with golden camel are colours that are understated and expensive looking, and are just right for winter.

Finishing touches like picture or funnel collars and a great piece of costume or estate neck jewellery or fur trim all frame the face. Likewise bracelets and cuffs decorate an area that can look bare.

These elements are for those who want their clothes to give the sartorial message of understated panache - a class act with no hint of bling.

Military fashion too, has had designers working through every uniform era in the archives. Dolce and Gabbana highlighted Napoleonic styled jackets and coats with high stand collars. Ralph Lauren continues to design gold bordered military influenced garments and so does the high street.

Great coats are a staple of deep winter fashion and buttons reinforce the military look whether small or large. Whatever fashionistas say this look refuses to bow out gracefully as it keeps morphing into a new variation.