Miquita Oliver and family always swapping jackets

Miquita Oliver and her “greater family” constantly swap their favourite bomber jackets.

Miquita Oliver and her “greater family” constantly swap jackets.

The Miss Me? podcaster inherited a love of the garments from her older relatives and family friends, and even now, they all still love the coats but never buy new because they can simply take someone else’s for a while.

Asked what fashion item she has too many of, she told the Sunday Times Style magazine: “Bomber jackets. I have about nine and they’re all old and a little bit different.

“My love of bomber jackets is shaped by Buffalo, the 1980s style movement that my family were a part of, and they are such a staple of that time.

“By family I mean greater family, people that I grew up with along with blood relations. So Judy Blame, Ray Petri, Jamie Morgan, Mark Lebon, as well as my aunt, Neneh Cherry.

“If there’s a family gathering, 70 per cent of us will be in old bomber jackets — no one has new ones — and we’re always taking each other’s home.

“Wearing them is a safety blanket and reminds me of being a Londoner. I find them in great places, like an old leather shop on Green Lanes in north London. It has to be a bit lived-in.”

The 41-year-old star also often borrows clothes from her mum Andi Oliver’s wardrobe.

Asked if she ever shares clothes with the chef, she said: “Yes, she has a lot of long, jewel-coloured silk dresses with tie-waists — very Diane von Furstenberg, or Seventies Cher.

“She recently bought some beautiful Chloé wedge sandals, which I shall be borrowing, and she has full Adidas tracksuits that I nick too. “

While Miquita loves bomber jackets whatever their vintage, she regrets some of the leather coats she has worn over the years.

She explained: “In my early twenties I bought a lot of high-street leather jackets. I have a journey with leather jackets — when I was a teenager I loved those bulky biker jackets, then I had the terrible high-street phase, and now I love a minimal, 1990s Calvin Klein one.”