From 'upper wear' to 'Zoom groom', how we evolved a whole new style language this year
Forget 'Riviera chic', 2020 called for a whole new batch of phrases to define our new lockdown wardrobes
31 December 2020 • 7:00am
Prince William, seen here with the Duchess of Cambridge in virtual conversation with a school in April, is one of the many people who's had to master looking presentable on Zoom
Who at the start of 2020 would have guessed that, in a few short months, a Brompton bicycle would become as desirable, and unavailable, as a Birkin bag? Or that, in short order come the first lockdown, ‘quarantini o’clock’ would drift inexorably forward with each passing day of the global pandemic? Unsurprisingly, a year like no other has rewritten the rule book on what we should expect of the average twelve-month. But it’s also contributed an artillery of fresh acronyms with which to explain our current predicament along with some necessarily strange neologisms by which to remember it.