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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Chloe Mac Donnell

HISTORICAL FACTS: How outdoors chic hit the mainstream | History Defined

Female hiker hiking across wooden footbridge, cropped view of legs and hiking boots.
Female hiker hiking across wooden footbridge, cropped view of legs and hiking boots. Photograph: Maria Fuchs/Getty Images/Image Source

Over the weekend, while her in-laws were wearing fur-trimmed robes and gobstopper-sized diamonds, Meghan Markle was pictured out hiking in leggings and a rain jacket, strolling down a mountain trail in Montecito, California.

The Duchess of Sussex wore brown lace-up boots, thick blue woollen socks, a straw hat, oversized sunglasses and – peeking out from under a pale pink neckerchief, in some truly, monumental mountainside symbolism – a quartz crystal Clarity Retreat necklace from the brand Maya Brenner. “A subtle wearable crystal piece to protect your peace … so every day can be your retreat,” reads the online blurb.

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