Fashion in books is important. We'd even be as bold as to say that clothes make a character.Without her black dress Truman Capote's Holly Golightly wouldn't be an effortlessly chic socialite. In Atonement, Robbie wouldn't have fantasised about Cecelia if she hadn't been wearing that green gown. And there would be no Miss Havisham without a wilted yellow wedding dress, in Dickens' Great Expectations.Essentially, without these garments, all these characters would be incomplete, as their sartorial preferences means we are able to understand their personalities better, know a little bit about their pasts and what they're thinking.Here, we've picked some of the ultimate fashionable literary characters.

The most fashionable characters in literature

Cecelia, Atonement

Sayuri, Memoirs of a Geisha

Dorian Gray, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Daisy Buchanan, The Great Gatsby

Effie Trinket, The Hunger Games

Catherine Earnshaw, Wuthering Heights

Scarlett O’Hara, Gone with the Wind

Emma, Emma

Orlando, Orlando

Miranda Priestly, The Devil Wears Prada

Anna, Anna Karenina

Meg, Little Women

Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games

Miss Havisham, Great Expectations

Kitty, Anna Karenina

Christian Grey, Fifty Shades of Grey

Bellatrix Lestrange, Harry Potter

Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Lisbeth Salander, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Celia Foote, The Help

Absolutely flawless: Meet the most fashionable characters in literature