There are two things Angelina Jolie refuses to do! Number one eat and number two stop wearing pencil line skirts the women is addicted! So embrace your inner pencil love …!

It's not just Jolie that loves the stream line sexy fitted look. Enter our love affair with the pencil skirt. This season sees us particularly body conscious, several generations away from the boxier fit of their 60’s heyday – witness the stritching on the amethyst skirt by Valentino Roma, whose shapely seams make clear the modern pencil skirt’s main message: it is all about the curve. At £270 it represents the upper end of the market - but it's a skirt you will thank every time you look in the mirror.

For a looser, but still shapely fit, opt for this Margaret Howell number instead. At the other end of the price spectrum, H&M has great pencil skirt pedigree (the one from Madonna's line this season was especially flattering to shapely bottoms), and Maria Grachvogel's version for Oli has a designer feel at a high-street price. There is no use being coy about this: a good pencil skirt is all about the rear view, and this is one fashion field where a proper bottom is a definite advantage.