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Hooray! At long last, proof women only get better with age and increased power! While in 2001 Nicola Sturgeon was a dead ringer for Angela Merkel – all elephantine linen trouser suits, death row haircut and M&S shoes – today she is as sleek as an otter.Not quite in the same league as Christine Lagarde of the IMF – Scottish voters would certainly revolt if any shiny black Net-a-Porter carrier bags arrived at Nicola’s doorstep; her addiction to the British high street means you are more likely to find a Next delivery van hovering first thing – Nicola has finally understood that in order for ordinary people to give you their trust, you cannot go to work every day looking like an overstuffed sofa, or a cowgirl (boy, did she love plaid lumberjack shirts!), or an insurance salesperson nervously pulling on American tan tights and blue pumps for a conference.
Earlier in her career, Nicola adhered to the notion that men will only take a woman seriously if she wears navy trouser suits with apologetic boxy jackets, optimistically bought one size too small so the lapels are pulled across the embonpoint, straining like a man who has never eaten vegetables.
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Left, soon to be First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in 2001 wearing a £150 green suit from Debenhams and right, pictured last month at a debate on Scottish independence in a striking navy blue combination A fun, human side was put across by wearing woefully unfashionable jeans, the sort with a waistband up near your ears. To assure us she was serious, her hair was a mouseback greige.
I can understand this stance. Any female politician who has tried to dress as though she does indeed own two X chromosomes, such as poor old Theresa May and those leopard-print pumps, has been quickly shot down in flames.
Quirkiness takes a great deal of time, and effort, to get right and even then seems too frivolous for such serious times.
Now, though, Nicola seems to have lost a bit of weight, dyed her hair blonde and cut it shorter, found an addiction to high heels (FCUK, Dune and Kurt Geiger, in cherry red!), and wears neat navy skirt suits that cinch the waist and skim the knee.
She is rumoured to have hired a personal shopper and even employed a stylist in the run-up to the Scottish parliament election in 2007. This is as it should be: busy working women need back-up and shouldn’t be shy of enlisting help.
How would I like Nicola Sturgeon to morph even further into a fox (and how long until Vogue shoots her on a moor, holding a thistle, dressed in Christopher Kane, sitting on a tartan blanket; the clichés about how Scottish women should dress and behave are endless)?
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in 2009 in a smart tailored skirt suit, and right, wearing a bold red jacket in 2011 
Nicola Sturgeon took a backwards step in 2012 with this beige pants suit but compensated the following year with a grey patterned power suit I’d like her to champion Scottish mills, weavers and knitters, and proper home-grown wool (for all that the likes of Brora boast about Scottish cashmere, the wool is invariably imported from Mongolia).
I’d like, too, for her to talk to Stewart Parvin, the Scottish-born couturier who makes clothes for the Queen: he knows every trick in the book to make a woman not just beautiful, but professional and elegant and perfect.
Burn all those trouser suits: I hear this winter will be ferocious north of Scotch Corner. Spend more on handbags: I read she spent just £50 on a bag! I spend more than that on lunch!
Young women in Edinburgh, like my two Scottish nieces, are addicted to Mulberry and Vuitton in a very Essex way: give them someone sartorial to look up to, someone intelligent and passionate but who isn’t afraid of a bit of pampering.
Even Thatcher paid attention to the details, wearing ear protectors in a helicopter upside down so they wouldn’t mess up her hairdo.
There is nothing to be ashamed of in looking perfect. Only then can you forget what you are wearing, and get on with the job in hand.
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