I know what you’re thinking. Why should you care about fashion at a time like this? The country is in mourning. We are heading into a grim winter with an untested prime minister. Autumn’s water-cooler chat will be about energy bills, not hemlines. No one in their right mind has any bandwidth for worrying about trends.
But let me put it another way. Could you do with cheering up? Might you need to think carefully about how to keep warm, as the weather gets colder? As we crash collectively down to earth, plunged abruptly from summer into deep gloom, would it perhaps not be the worst idea to remember there are actually some nice things about autumn?
