b'THE GUARDIAN SAYS .Caroline Jones has pledged to wear a different charity shop outfit every day for a year, inspired by her mothers death from breast cancer. By Paula CocozzaCaroline Jones stands in front of her wardrobe, flicking hangers. Shehad a similar dressing-table at home in Chester where Caroline was is pulling out dress after dress, with a breezy commentary in fashionborn, always with a pot of Nivea Creme on it. Funny to think of that captions. Wear that with a nice red belt. And a pair of killer heels.only now, she says. She had this dressing table and Ive got that. Hangers clatter. Doors slide one way and another. Then her handAnd I find my children inside my wardrobe, like she used to find me lands on a stripy cardigan and everything stops moving. It is Carolinesin hers.mothers cardigan.Caroline, 46, pulls out a box of nail polish and shows me the Out comes the cardigan. Its got nautical stripes and is cut like acolour she is wearing. Ruby by Mavala. It was Marys, of course. jacket, but thats hardly the point. Caroline has gone quiet. She isIt might seem odd to find the make commemorative, as well as the still holding the hanger, but she has stopped seeing just the cardigan.colour, but Caroline, like Mary, is a woman who enjoys details. She is seeing her mum, Mary, who died of breast cancer last October,When she rattles off the names of labels she has found in the aged 72.Harpendencharityshop,theysoundlikeawalkthroughthe Caroline sees Mary in so many of these clothesthe ones thatladieswearfloorofa1980sdepartmentstore.Eastex,Alexon, belonged to Mary, the ones she found in the Cancer Research UKJacques Vert. But the names are relevant because that is exactly the shop in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, where Mary spent 13 years aswalk that she and her mum, who both loved fashion, made together a volunteer, the ones that Mary would have loved if only she hadon countless occasions. lived to see them. For all these reasons, Caroline has decided forThis, she says, tugging at the drawers of the dressing table, is the one whole year to wear only clothes from Cancer Research UKplace where she remembers her mum most. I think about my shops. Doing it, she has already raised more than 3,500 for themumwhen Im putting on my makeup and Imreally close to charity.Nowgettingdressedeachdayisapositiveactofthe mirror. Perhaps this is why, later, she holds a hand a few inches remembrance.in front of her face, and says that is where her grief is. My four This whole thing came about at 11pm on New Years Eve, sheminutes putting on makeup is pretty much given over to my mum. says. She had spent the evening at a friends house with her husband,And she would be thinking, right, what are you wearing today? Rod, and their three children, Mary, Connie and Matthew. After aAnd Im having a little conversation with her, about what it is few hours I said, You know what, Im going to go home and be ongoing to be. Its just that moment, and its nice. Then life kicks in. my own for an hour. And I really want to and Im not upsetI justPorridge has to get made. Shoes need to be paired up. The clocks want to be on my own in a quiet house.ticking. She is fingering the gold top on the little bottle of ruby nail I came back and in the car on the way home, this surge ofpolish. Turning and turning it, as if it were a knob that will open a adrenaline kicked in. I thought, Ive got it. Im going to celebrate mydoor. mum in a completely original way. The next morning, Caroline gotWhen Mary started chemotherapy just over two years ago, dressed in secondhand clothes from the Cancer Research UK shopCaroline took over some of her mothers shifts in the charity shop. and posted her first pictures on the Facebook page that is nowNow she goes in each week to change the window display, help dedicated to the project. Its called Knickers Models Own, whichout and forage for bargains for Knickers Models Own. has caused some fathers at the kids school to titter. (Oh, come on,It is another place where she finds her mother. Shes in that dads of Harpenden, its a reference to the models own captionshop. Behind the till. But there is a long list of shops in which that stylists use.) In one week alone, the site reached 140,000Caroline finds Mary. These haunts make up a sort of biographical people. high street, trailing back to Browns of Chester, right up to Tyrell and Caroline slides the wardrobe doors shut and heads over to theGreen, Southampton and John Lewis in Welwyn, where latterly dressing table. A tangle of costume necklaces that look like individualCaroline would push Mary in her wheelchair. solar systems hang from the mirror, some of them Marys. MaryBut Chelsea Girl? As a Smash Hits-reading teenager? Surely she Page 18'