What to wear for concerts is a constant challenge, especially if you are not bound by the consensus which dictates what members of an orchestra must wear. In the days with my chamber group Domus, we generally made a point of not wearing black, to prove we were independent thinkers and to scotch any notion that a chamber group is nothing more than a mini-orchestra. Nobody ever told us what to wear, so we could make up our own ‘look’, as colourful and unblack as we liked. Having said that, it was always hard to know exactly what clothes we should be looking for, partly because attitudes towards concert attire always seem to be shifting. There were no ‘rules’, no style guide handed down by management, but on the other hand there have always been strong feelings about the right sort of thing to wear for concerts. What I wore on the concert platform usually seemed to be out of step with the fashion available in high street stores, but in a subtle way. We never had any precise idea about the ‘uniform’ of a chamber group, except that we wanted to look as if we'd given the matter some thought, and coordinated our style with one another. There was general agreement about what kind of thing was ‘appropriate’, and it was often slightly anachronistic.