Well, I've requested a return for the jeans, as mentioned earlier, and now I'm annoyed enough with them not to exchange for a smaller size.
I appreciate all of the lovely comments - hair, nails and makeup are so important to me in the summer when I can't pull together the kinds of looks I'd like to.
I keep thinking about the women I follow on IG etc whose style I admire, and I'm thinking the difficulty in copying lies more in the huge differences in body type between me....and them. These women (former fashion editors, European stylists etc) seem to live in linen , cotton, body con little silk knit tops, luxe leather thong sandals and expensive gold jewellery. Somehow the look eludes me .