Shorts at work for men: Is it time to consider them?
As summer temperatures soar, it makes no sense – sartorially or environmentally – to stick with long trousers.
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Long trousers are sweaty enablers of a pretence that our world is not changing, says the writer.
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Leo Lewis
There are colleagues in London, New York and Brussels who will shudder at this disclosure, but 66 per cent of the three men in the Tokyo bureau are currently wearing shorts. In the office. In meetings. In bare-kneed professionalism.
The existence of the one office hold-out is important. His perseverance serves as a reminder that the brainwashing powers of the trouser cult remain strong and, incredibly, that the shorts debate is far from settled.
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