http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/main.jh...9/efsuit129.xml

"As the men's 'shorts suit' is tipped to be a key look for the office this summer, Robert Colvile bares his knees and braves the insults.

'Are you sure you've got the knees for this?" asked my colleague, delicately. To be honest, I wasn't sure - but when you're casting aside office etiquette in the name of fashion, chutzpah is a heck of a lot more important than knobbly joints.

My new approach to workwear began after I learnt this week that the business suit is on its last legs. Only 24 per cent of office workers are now required to wear one, compared with 37 per cent just four years ago.

If standards continue to slacken, the once-compulsory dress code could be dead within a decade, as brokers and estate agents swap tailored two-pieces for chinos and brogues.

But an alternative interpretation of officewear is rapidly gaining currency: the shorts suit.

"Shorts are becoming a natural summer staple for those who dress well in the city," says the latest issue of GQ magazine - which hailed the sawn-off shorts suit as "a bold fashion statement that's totally tied to 2008".

Oh dear.

Why not rolled up sleeves, or an unbuttoned shirt and a roguishly askew tie I ask?!?

" C'est la Mode ".....

Oh my...... He looks like a grown up "Little Lord Flaunteroy"........

I was going to say something similar ^^^ . All he needs is a little cap and he's all set for prep school.

quite "retro" hehhh??

Maybe not so retro... In this country alot of prep school uniforms are just like that.

It's not even April 1st.

* Shakes head *

Ok, there is no dress code where I work, and I work with some pretty weird dressers.... utili-kilts are common around my office... but that suit is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. BUT, give that guy a guitar and a beanie and he could go as Angus Young for Halloween this year.

I could so see this in a Seinfeld episode.

I'd wear it
Heck I'd wear scuba gear to work if I knew I could get away with it.

My friend's son bought a pair of these shorts the other day... pinstriped. They cost about $50. He said he's going to wear them golfing.

waow .. yeah .. why not ?

I think I will stick to wearing my kilt to work. More comfortible than pants.

Ya, I think I'll pass on the scuba gear... I'd worry about the lack of breathability of neoprene. Yikes!



Well sure, golfing is fine with these shorts--with a nice poloshirt and some golf shoes... I get that.

But with black dress socks, wingtips, a button down, tie and suit coat? That's the problem. Fashion faux pas of major proportions. LOL. At least a utili-kilt can be worn with a jacket and you won't look like a 7 year old school boy. Oh, you'll look eccentric in a utili-kilt and suit coat, but you won't look like a grown man trying to dress like a 3rd grader.

utili-kilts? these aren't kilts they're skirts

so you are very " a la mode " ....

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He looks a right plonker.

"fashion"?

Is it okay to hit "Fashion"? Please say it is

Hmmm, in most places I'd say you're right... but most work places frown on men coming to work in drag.. except where I work. Let me tell you... a 6'2" 210lb man does NOT look "cute" in a floral empire waisted dress... and oh yes, you see that around here too. LOL.

*gouges out own eyes*

NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!



Must wear blinders that only can see above the waist...much better now!

OK.....

Did anyone else have a school uniform which was practically the same thing?

in the UK they still do ..

LOL! I've always wondered: What do you wear under that there kilt?

My shoes and socks. Anything else you will have to fine out yourself.

LOL

You ask

The shorts look ok, but you have to remember some important things here..

This will look disgustingly bad on people on the larger side.
We are not spanish. We don't have a nice tan and nice physiques generally.
You must never wear socks with those shoes with those shorts.
You'd look like one of the krankies.

I think they look really stupid.

In Samoa, they wear a very smart sarong. It usually comes as part of the office uniform with the companies design on it, or it can be black.

Lavalava's rule. They could do a lot worse than use them here, apart fom we all have white knobbly knees and insist on wearing socks.