When I was six years old my father took me to his work. We caught the tube to the City, where he toiled long hours every day, and I got to eat biscuits and read my Famous Five book while sitting on a wheelie office chair in my own enormous meeting room.

Happy memories – but none match my utter delight at getting to wear a suit that day. With a real tie. Aged just six, I was the business. Rocking it next to my smart father.

And that’s the potent power of a suit. Even on an infant.

I was reminded of this childhood moment when starting my first shift at Suited & Booted, a phenomenal but little known charity based in​ the City, which dresses economically disadvantaged and often vulnerable men for job interviews.

My wife has been a volunteer dresser for the unrelated female equivalent, Smartworks, for many years and I’d long wondered if there was a similar service for men. Finally I got off my backside and took action.

Housed in the aptly named ‘St Andrew By the Wardrobe Church’, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Sure, I’d given friends advice before job interviews – but dressing another man? A man I'd never met before? I couldn’t imagine it. Men don’t even typically try clothes on together.