While trench coats, oversized hats, checked fabrics and cowboy boots were undoubtedly some of the year's biggest trends, the jewellery world was igniting (or, rather, reigniting) cult styles of its own.
Asymmetrical pearl earrings and diamanté hair slides may have been a recurring theme, it was the shell-embellished pieces that dominated the accessories landscape in 2018.
Shell bracelets, shell necklaces, shell earrings, shell anklets, shell-embellished sandals... heck we'd wear jumpers adorned with the chic little crustaceans if only someone would make one for us. We only draw the line at lingerie (but perhaps a bikini would be cute?).
Shell-mania hit fever pitch this summer having first been seen at the runway at Prada back in February 2017 for the autumn/winter '18 collection.
Reminiscent of the beach-y bits you used to pick up on a holiday in the Canary Islands and model in the school common room for as long as poss before your tutor picked up on the contraband item, the resurgence is - thankfully - infinitely more grown-up.
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