Tailored linen shorts, £29.50, Marks & SpencerThere is a very real danger of appearing shapeless in the summer. Between voluminous blouses and billowing maxi dresses, an ‘easy breezy’ silhouette can quickly overwhelm the wearer, their figure lost to an excess of fabric and floral prints.My solution?
Shorts. Waist-defining and sharp, yet still cool and casual, I’ve always felt that shorts could provide me with some structure, when most other hot-weather fashion options would not.But my beloved shorts don’t appeal to all, I’m aware.
Despite strong, chic patronages in fashion history (see Jackie Kennedy in chino shorts and pearls at Cape Cod in the Fifties, or Rachel from Friends wearing plaid boxers in the Nineties) there are many women out.
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