Ah, back-to-school season, the true season of fresh starts, that glorious, terra-cotta-colored time of year. All that early fall excitement is palpable even to the decidedly non-school-aged. Your last memory of homeroom may be hurtling into obscurity in life’s rearview mirror, but come late August, there’s still that rush of a new beginning before you. You took your vacation, you survived the heat, you juiced in pursuit of a “bikini body”—that’s over. As the weather starts to cool (and with no real holiday in sight for months), there’s the sense that now your work begins—now your life is really starting anew. This is it, and it’s going to be great. And it begins, like any new venture, with the proper gear.
That gear gets a fresh start, too. It’s the time of year fashion resets the parameters of the conversation, so you don’t have to follow up or answer the previous year’s trends. You can start one of your own, remaking yourself from follower to leader in one fell purchase. There’s no transitioning from summer vacation into back-to-school—there’s only full-bore, full-tilt, this-is-me-now promulgation of the self. And these are the conversation-starting bag brands to know, the ones that will have the hallways whispering, “There’s something different about her this year . . .”
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