Chic in the spring

5 ways to update your workwear wardrobe

It might not quite be summer, but it's definitely feeling warmish outside. That's delightful at the weekend, but trickier the other five days of the week, should you have an office dress code to follow.

Wool-mix tailoring, beaming sunshine and hermetically sealed windows do not make a good combination. Which is why, even though we're longing to buy embroidered sundresses and basket bags to carry lemons home from the market (a thing that no one has done or will ever do, but don't let that stop the fantasy), we're taking a first-things-first approach to spring-cleaning our wardrobes, and starting with workwear.