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Earning your pinstripes

HOW WILL WE DRESS when we finally, properly, truly, actually return to the office? Lockdown will ease as summer swells its heat and so it is possible that the modern predilection for aggressive casualness retains a Work From Home vibe.

While I maintained a counter-cultural conservative standard throughout all my online screen calls, I did not go the whole Jacob Rees-Mogg affect of dressing for dinner in the jungle, I merely always wore a tie. Opposite me screened many an executive talking from a spare

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