“Some think that chic is a form of deprivation – a sort of anorexia of accessories that strips you back to a bare, buffed and gleaming face, set on a frame of sleekly invisible dark-toned coordinates. Others profess that chic is classics – clothing so resolutely conservative and time-tested that anyone can scrub up like the Hepburns, Katherine or Audrey. But the principle of chic is more elastic than that. Looking stylish is not a matter of discipline, but of adaptation. There are rules but they don’t work for everyone,