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Guardian fashion

2016: are you hygge or basic?

Hygge.
Hygge. Composite: Getty
  1. Family having cozy dinner en garden house<br>Family having a healthy meal, in victorian style greenhouse

    There's a power cut on Boxing Day. Do you …

    1. Not even notice because you've got the whole house lit by candles already ​

      Add a point in B

    2. Spend hours getting wound up on the phone trying to get an electrician

      Add a point in A

  2. Mermaid blanket and Planet Earth II still

    Your perfect afternoon would comprise:

    1. Watching Planet Earth while hiding behind your mermaid blanket

      Add a point in B

    2. A brisk walk through the forest, drinking in nature

      Add a point in A

  3. A plate of Swedish Meatballs. Image shot 2015. Exact date unknown.<br>GEDG4P A plate of Swedish Meatballs. Image shot 2015. Exact date unknown.

    Meatballs are

    1. Based on a passed-down recipe from your Nordic great grandmother and you have had the organic reindeer meat on order since July

      Add a point in A

    2. The bribe you use to get your significant other to brave Ikea with you

      Add a point in B

  4. Apple Store Soho Presents Meet The Filmmaker: Blake Lively, "Age of Adaline"<br>NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 22:  Blake Lively attends the Apple Store Soho Presents Meet The Filmmaker: Blake Lively, "Age of Adaline" at Apple Store Soho on April 22, 2015 in New York City.  (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

    Blake is:

    1. A great name

      Add a point in A

    2. A surname

      Add a point in B

  5. Holes in your jeans are:

    1. There on purpose and MASSIVE. More rip, less jean is your Jenner-inspired mantra

      Add a point in A

    2. An excuse to get crafty. That embroidery basket won't use itself

      Add a point in B

  6. Autumn is:

    1. A hashtag!

      Add a point in A

    2. A season!

      Add a point in B

  7. The Cardigans are:

    1. 90s one-hit wonders. Lovefool was on that mixtape given to you by an ex who is now a 3D street artist

      Add a point in B

    2. A subversive way to retroactively wear a winter classic

      Add a point in A

  8. Quality Street chocolates<br>D1J93N Quality Street chocolates

    A tin of Quality Street is:

    1. Where you'll find the sewing kit

      Add a point in B

    2. Your favourite thing about Christmas

      Add a point in A

  9. Carolyn Murphy

    Your Boxing Day walk outfit:

    1. Merino wool leggings (great for skiing), ancient black Hunter wellies, a fisherman’s sweater and a cashmere blanket you keep in the car boot

      Add a point in B

    2. Skinny jeans tucked into the new Uggs you asked Santa for, faux fur gilet artfully layered over cashmere tunic from the Boden sale

      Add a point in A

  10. Your local bar is:

    1. Actually spelled Barre and where you are most Sunday mornings

      Add a point in A

    2. Round the corner

      Add a point in B

  11. Butter is:

    1. Dairy

      Add a point in B

    2. A good fat in, like, moderation and in, like, bullet coffee

      Add a point in A

  12. Lean In book jacket and Yung Lean

    Lean ...

    1. Yung?

      Add a point in B

    2. In! S/o the sisterhood!

      Add a point in A

  13. You hate:

    1. Your friends, fat arms, bread and the patriarchy

      Add a point in A

    2. Private healthcare, corruption, man-made fibres and the patriarchy

      Add a point in B

  14. On Christmas Eve, your last minute errands will be:

    1. Foraging the fresh ivy you like to tie your artisan linen table napkins with and delivering mason jars of homemade sloe gin as gifts to all of your neighbours

      Add a point in A

    2. Waitrose in six mins – lots of the spenny Heston stuff for a festive treat

      Add a point in B

Buckets

  1. Basic

  2. Hygge

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