It's about time the work from home crowd rediscovered the art of the louche dressing gown
Why settle for manky jogging bottoms when all along there has been a far nattier alternative?
Noel Coward knew the merits of dressing well
Credit: REX
When social historians of the future come to write their accounts of this turbulent year, among the wealth of idiosyncratic detail – panic buying, masks, a surfeit of home-baked sourdough, PE with Joe – the abrupt change in the nation’s dress code will surely compel their attention. Confined to home for months on end, visible only from the waist up in Zoom meetings with colleagues and friends, we gratefully cast off the constricting carapace of office clothes and subsided into the unstructured embrace of leisurewear.