The biggest question over the coming season is likely to revolve around the length of your shorts. Which style will prevail this year? Short shorts, longer, wider ones or somewhere in between? “Talk to experts, and there are mixed opinions,” Lauren Cochrane writes. But don’t panic. She has done the legwork and has answers.

“The thing to consider if you’re going to wear shorts is that there are times and places where they are more acceptable,” writes Zak Maoui, style director at Esquire UK. “First, unless your work dress code permits it, we advise against wearing shorts to the office. A red-carpet event? Assuming you’re not Justin Bieber, we wouldn’t greenlight that, either.” As for when you can – and should – this summer, find out here.

We’re not saying that there’s a mathematically proven cheat code when it comes to dressing. But if your top half is more like 61.8 per cent, the sweet spot according to the Fibonacci sequence, then you must be doing something right. Right? Here’s scientific reasoning why a sweatshirt and shorts hits different.

Things have moved on since 1964, when Sir Hardy Amies penned ABC Of Men’s Fashion, in which he decreed that we should “never wear shorts except on the beach or on a walking tour”. But can a grown man, even today, get away with a hem that sits above the knee in a formal setting? Two writers have thoughts.