Life coach: Dan Rookwood
How can I avoid looking like a twit on holiday?
Is that you, Prime Minister? Here are my ‘abroadrobe’ rules: 1) Merely unbuttoning a business shirt or wearing work shoes without socks looks too stiff. Loosen up with a Hartford linen shirt, J Crew shorts and Castañer espadrilles. 2) Psst. Secret socks are not secret, they are naff. 3) Stick to plain or striped round-neck cotton T-shirts from Sunspel. No thuggish football kit or lame slogan T-shirts: ‘It ain’t going to lick itself’ isn’t funny in any language. 4) Don’t go native. Fisherman’s pants, Aladdin slippers and sarongs are all wrong. 5) The one thing to wear above all else? Sunscreen. Baz Luhrmann was right.
Dan loves
Topman Personal Shopping
Not a fan of traipsing around shops? Let an expert do it for you while you sit on a sofa and sup cold beer. Topman’s personal shoppers are a) excellent, b) free, and c) on the swish new top floor of the Oxford Circus store. (topman.com)
Dan is an editor at mrporter.com