Empty desks and OOO messages indicate that we’re officially approaching corporate midsummer. Office talk might already be turning toward fall planning, but our daydreams continue to be escapist, and often nostalgic with summer memories. In applying scout-like badges and merit pins to clothes, and using beribboned medals as accessories to their fall 2025 and spring 2026 collections, designers seem to be saying, “We know what you did that long-ago summer,” back when life was simpler, and the authority figure was a camp counselor rather than a CEO.
