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As people head back to school or work this September, there’s a flurry for new wardrobes, new looks, and new stationary to accessorise your ‘upgraded self’. This was always an unspoken thing each year, like clockwork, in whatever way possible, girls would ‘upgrade’ their working self. Because as Edith Head said, “You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it”. But now, we see this becoming an actively advertised attitude towards young women. We see it in the bayonetta glasses, the wine red kitten heels and the grey pinstripe suits, redefining the items that were often left untouched in Zara’s sales before.   So why have we glorified the everyday?   It’s no secret that this conversation is largely centred around working women, so for the majority of this piece, that is who this conversation will be on.  I asked my followers on instagram what they thought of trends such as the ‘office siren’ and received a mix in responses.  One said “I think tha...