Summertime, when the dressing ain’t easy

By Luke Leitch

Summer’s lease hath all too short a date? From where I’m sweating, that all depends on your feelings about shorts, sandals and skirts.

Several years ago I wore a pair of shorts to a mid-August interview with a multi-millionaire female fashion entrepreneur. They were of a perfectly respectable length, just north of the knee. The day was very hot – for London at least – but the memory of that encounter with the fashionista burns hotter. As I stepped into her corner office she burst out laughing. “Shorts! I can’t believe you wore shorts to a business meeting!” She still teases me about it almost every time we meet.