While certain trends have a limited shelf-life – “mob wife” and “tomato girl summer” spring to mind – the preppy style mood prevails for 2025, with rugby tops, riding boots and boat shoes repositioned as fashion items. As Vogue ’s Daniel Rodgers wrote in the November issue, the “Sloaniest of fashion classics are back in style – but the rules have changed.”

Boat shoes on the pavements at Copenhagen Fashion Week. Jeremy Moeller/Getty Images

Miuccia Prada showcased boat shoes on Miu Miu’s spring/summer 2024 runway as the footwear of choice for a dishevelled modern day prepster – but, the boat shoe’s viral status isn’t just down to the fact that Miu Miu stylist Lotta Volkova knows how to stoke an online shopping commotion. Today’s take on collegiate style is simultaneously paying homa

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