I’ve been indulging in a bit of fantasy shopping for my favourite woman-crush, Beverly Goldberg. Have you watched The Goldbergs yet" It’s fabulous – I try to catch it every morning on E4 for a bit of a feel-good fix. Loosely based on the real-life events of a real-life family called – you’ve guessed it – The Goldbergs, it stars Wendi McLendon-Covey as crazy, interfering mega-mother Beverly and Jeff Garlin (from Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, my favourite comedy TV series of all time) as the bumbling, sort-of-useless, telly-watching Dad. It’s a real nostalgic kickback for anyone who grew up in the eighties and the storylines are so wonderfully honest and true that I well up and/or cry at the end of nearly every episode.
Anyway: Beverly’s wardrobe is one of the show’s definite highlights, with her speciality piece being the sort of OTT  knitwear that was all the rage in the eighties. I’m talking bejewelled, shoulder-padded, insane patterns or – often – all three. I mean, she’s just spectacular. I would look ridiculous in any sort of bejewelled, shoulder-padded knitwear at the moment because my body is shaped like a weeble, but I want to live vicariously through you all and so I’ve picked out a selection of amazing jumpers that I know Beverly Goldberg would approve of. They’re all perhaps just a little bit more refined and modern than Bev’s choices (an...