Selected: The Post-Holiday Blues

After almost three weeks off, I returned to work yesterday. September. Grey skies. Cold and rainy. Sigh. It has been hard, guys.

My inbox was bursting at the seams and it will take me as much time to catch up with all the emails at work as to assimilate all the office gossip I have missed. Jerry has left? What?

This is why I decided to step outside of the greyscale, for once, and make a wide selection of nice blue things to soothe us through the roughness of September.

As the cold settles in slowly, retailers are showing what they have up their sleeves in the form of weekly drops: coats, knitwear and warm accessories.

Modern silhouettes, a lot of tailoring, knits and layering pieces in a curated selection of post-holiday blues. Enjoy this rare moment while you can, as once this dissipates, I will be going back to glorious, bright grayscale.

ASOS wool-mix overcoat with dropped shoulder, £90 (ASOS.com)

Figure crew t-shirt, £40 (allsaints.com)

ALPHA INDUSTRIES MA-1 slim-fit long bomber jacket, £110 (ASOS.com)

Oversized bomber jacket, £69.99 (zara.com)

ASOS skinny joggers with polytricot woven panels, £30 (ASOS.com)

FRED PERRY crew-neck t-shirt, £30 (ASOS.com)

Soven bomber jacket, £228 (allsaints.com)

Quilted bomber jacket, £49.99 (zara.com)

Denim-knitted bomber jacket, £35 (topman.com)

Double-breasted cotton Mac, £80 (topman.com)

Boxfresh Cladd leather trainers, £70 (ASOS.com)

Basic long-sleeve t-shirt, £9.99 (pullandbear.com)

LACOSTE LIVE Trajet leather and nubuck running shoes, £85 (lacoste.com)

Drawstring tailored trousers, £79 (COSstores.com)

Denim short-sleeve casual shirt, £20 (topman.com)

Wool blend skinny chinos, £35 (topman.com)

Cotton roll neck jumper, £14.99 (newlook.com)

Lightweight slim-fit trousers, £110 (whistles.com)

Check beach trousers, £25.99 (pullandbear.com)

Scarf with crinkle texture, £15 (riverisland.com)

SELECTED HOMME ribbed collar cotton shirt, £45 (topman.com)

Leather-look nubuck belt, £9.99 (newlook.com)

Vans Era canvas Mono plimsolls, £52 (ASOS.com)

Double-breasted cloth coat, £89.99 (pullandbear.com)