“Why are you dressed so smart? You’re a writer.” It’s Wednesday evening and my landlord is putting me in my place. He’s not wrong, I shouldn't be dressed so lavishly as I cycle off to collect a takeaway. I’m in a grey sports jacket, dusty pink shirt buttoned to the top, light flowery tie, and navy chinos. I may look like I’m about to give a banging speech at a wedding, but I’m at the tail end of an important experiment: do I get more work done while dressed as formally as possible, or while dressed in my pyjamas?

When devising the ideal summer wardrobe, perhaps no decision is more vexing than your choice of shoes. It’s all well and good stocking your warm-weather wardrobe with an array of T-shirts, shorts and laid-back linen shirts, but if your footwear isn’t up to scratch, then that whole easy, breezy vision you have of soaking up the sun, starts to come apart at the seams. To help you on your quest, and with a little help from a handful of our favourite brands, we’ve put together a guide to some of this season’s most stylish pairs to get you started.

While it might seem as though skate culture – or at least skate culture-inspired style – is omnipresent today, it hasn’t always been that way. Skateboarding was originally a rinky-dink children’s craze, and only got serious in the 1970s when LA surfers started pulling tricks in empty swimming pools when the waves were flat. By the 1990s, lighter, narrower freestyle boards with smaller, harder, faster wheels allowed for more speed and greater control, and street skateboarding began to dominate public spaces, turning entire city suburbs into sandbox skateparks. By the turn of the century, it was reported that more American teenagers skated than played basketball.

“Why are you dressed so smart? You’re a writer.” It’s Wednesday evening and my landlord is putting me in my place. He’s not wrong, I shouldn't be dressed so lavishly as I cycle off to collect a takeaway. I’m in a grey sports jacket, dusty pink shirt buttoned to the top, light flowery tie, and navy chinos. I may look like I’m about to give a banging speech at a wedding, but I’m at the tail end of an important experiment: do I get more work done while dressed as formally as possible, or while dressed in my pyjamas?

When devising the ideal summer wardrobe, perhaps no decision is more vexing than your choice of shoes. It’s all well and good stocking your warm-weather wardrobe with an array of T-shirts, shorts and laid-back linen shirts, but if your footwear isn’t up to scratch, then that whole easy, breezy vision you have of soaking up the sun, starts to come apart at the seams. To help you on your quest, and with a little help from a handful of our favourite brands, we’ve put together a guide to some of this season’s most stylish pairs to get you started.