Back to work and back to school – let’s embrace the return to routine

Ease into autumn by refreshing the basics in your wardrobe and work bag. Plus: Jess Cartner-Morley’s autumn edit; back-to-school essentials; and frying pans, tested

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The French call it la rentrée. But more than panic-buying school shoes and booking emergency haircuts, early September’s “return” in France signifies a broader reset for everyone.

Not all of us are lucky enough – or French enough – to have the summer off. Regardless, there’s something in the air at this time of year, whether you’re young or old, have kids or don’t: that delicious new-pencil-case feeling. For me, it’s a welcome return to order after the freewheeling anarchy of the summer holidays, a time to re-establish routines.

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