A woman’s guide to wearing ties

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Between the ages of 11 and 16, I wore a tie every school day. The thick, shiny bottle-green and gold-striped style was the bane of my teenage existence: a stuffy symbol of repression and tool for stifling my creative expression.

Yet here I am, some 15 years later, choosing to wear a not dissimilar chocolate brown and blue-striped tie to London Fashion Week. No longer…