Autumn workwear trends: six ways to spruce up your office looks this September

At what age does September stop feeling like the start of the school year? Our guess is never. And certainly not this September, when the prevailing autumn/winter trends are making us dress like actual schoolchildren. Ties, shirts, tights, pulled up socks, ballet flats — the lot. We might as well be posing in front of our front doors before the first day of year seven, or next to a measurement etching showing our growth (purely personal at this point).

Let’s be clear: while prep-school styling may be back, it’s more Scandi-chic than Gossip Girl. If anything, we’re oscillating between pupil and teacher. Never before as an exam invigilator’s distinctive style been so coveted.