By now, you probably know the score. It’s summertime, “an’ the livin’ is easy”, as Mr DuBose Heyward noted in Mr George Gershwin’s not-uncontroversial opera Porgy And Bess (although Mr Duke Ellington later called it the “superbest”, and Ms Billie Holiday, Mr Sam Cooke and Fun Boy Three all covered the song, so we guess we’re OK). The clothes, likewise, take a more free-flowing, carefree bent. Enter the Johnny collar.

We might not be able to identify the particular Johnny the moniker pertains to – more likely of the rebellious Mr Johnny Cash ilk than of the besuited Mr Johnny Carson type. But we can reveal that the namesake collar is of the open-neck V-shaped variety. More importantly, we can tell you exactly when it comes into its own: like, right now.

New from our in-house label Mr P. is just that: a lightweight, knitted Johnny-collar polo shirt that’s perfect for imitating that Dickie Greenleaf vibe, which, come to think of it, is exactly what the talented Mr Ripley does in the book and film of similar denomination. Which isn’t to say you go as far as the titular character in Ms Patricia Highsmith’s thriller in achieving this end, but, well, it would look rather dashing in a boat bobbing about off the Italian coast, wouldn’t it?

Add to that the camp-collar shirt, which we’ll go ahead and presume you’re familiar with, so as not to get too deep into embarrassingly unprogressive semantics, and you really are set for your summer holiday. The latest Mr P. drop features no less than three examples, in a choice of fetching prints or a comfortably millennial pink.

Then the trousers, which are both buttoned and drawstring (not to say that you don’t know how to operate a belt, or have a waist that can’t be contained within one), plus a grandad-collar shirt (which isn’t to say it looks old and fusty, or that grandads themselves are old and fusty), which, when unbuttoned, you could argue it yawns open (which isn’t to say it looks tired). Take all this into account, and you have an entire wardrobe that is likely to have you feeling far less flustered in the hotter months than we have just made ourselves when writing this.

In short: if you don’t want to appear awkward, or hot under the collar, this summer, wear this.