Style tips for your Christmas and New Year Eve's parties

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Dress and boots: This is perhaps your go-to combo for Christmas and pre-New Year festivities. It's definitely comfortable and practical but also a little boring.

Why not, this year, add some extra shine to your party wardrobe? Think Dua Lipa in tweed short shorts or diamante backless dress, or Paris Hilton in a pink chainmail. So, we asked some experts for advice on inspiration for different wardrobe combinations that are easy, fun and sleek for the party season. Usually winter afternoons and evenings merit some heavy duty layering.

So, go ahead and add some cashmere knits, khadi blends and wool jumpers for brunches and sundowners while shine-on dresses and leather co-ord sets for after-dark hours. The key is striking a balance. In other words, make a visual impact without being over the top.

Designer Shruti Sancheti offers some suggestions: invest in a winter coat with either placement-oriented embroidery or applique work. "Layer it over either a denim co-ord set or a faux fur gilet and complete the look with boots. Go tone on tone and play with colours in the same family, ochre, beige, brown lend themselves beautifully to daytime outings," says Sancheti.

"A statement shawl with even a little Kashmiri embroidery, for example, makes for a great layering essential. Or, a jacket/coat crafted in exquisite indigenous khadi weaves and techniques like Kalamkari and handscreen printing," she adds. Invest in ribbed and padded jumpers made for eye-catching outerwear, exemplifying layering both as a solution and an attitude.