Everyone has something that they like to wear. Some item of clothing that, when they put it on, makes them feel different, more confident, someone ‘special’.

No? Then, really you won’t understand the quote in the title. Said by a crazy old lady who, I have to admit, I find myself admiring after visiting the exhibition in Palazzo Reale in Milan, last week.

I am, of course, talking of Vivienne Westwood. The exhibition, brought to us courtesy of the V&A, in London, where it was devised and first shown, takes us through her early work, at the height of the punk era, through to her latest creations which are, not only beautiful but wearable.

But it was the detail of her life, her reasoning and vision, her determination not to cow-tow to the establishment that made me an admirer. Until then I just thought she was a mad old woman.

Good exhibition and, if you’re in Milan and haven’t seen it, you must go.

Words in English and Italian, so there’s no excuse.

And V and I, separately, came away remembering that quote. It is so very true. Things really do seem to happen when you wear impressive clothes. But, to my mind, it’s not actually the clothes but what happens inside you when you wear them. Certain things that I have make me feel several inches taller and it must come across in the way that I act, I guess. And, when I have worn them, many good things really do seem to have happened.