Back-to-school fashion tips for mindful shopping

Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: swot up with these lessons in back-to-school dressing

September is the most fun time of year to shop, but it can also be dangerously seductive. Keep your wits about you with these tips I used to love back-to-school shopping when my children were little. The miniature highlighter pens, the name labels, those pop-out pencil cases from Smiggle, even the intergenerational wrangling over when the price of a water bottle becomes unreasonable. I love the ceremony of new beginnings. The curtain-raising drama of it all. Luckily for me, you don’t have to ...

By Jess Cartner-Morley