How to style a pencil skirt: three modern ways to wear in 2023

Once a fashion trend reaches the mainstream (by which I mean it’s all over TikTok, TV and your most prudent friends’ wardrobes), designers tend to run in the other direction. Or at least the most astute make a point of creating clothes that are the polar opposite. It’s here that this season’s must-have wardrobe addition starts its story. The antidote to years of dressed-down workwear, the pencil skirt is making a return as part of a “proper” office look. Once synonymous with 1950s typing pools and an aesthetic demonstrated beautifully by Mad Men’s Peggy Olson and Joan Harris, a pencil skirt says you’re a woman who means business. It screams femininity too. Distinguished by its clean lines and, well, the fact it can be