The science of shorts: how to pull off this summer's toughest style

It’s boom time for short trousers – just make sure you swerve the ‘Boris Johnson out for a jog’ look

This week’s dress code can be summarised in one word: shorts. There is a heatwave incoming, for a start. Plus, this weekend would have been Glastonbury, so the spirit of imaginary Worthy Farm is in the air, conjuring up the ghosts of Kate Moss and Alexa Chung in hot pants and wellies.

Look around you. It is boom time for shorts: perfect with trainers when you are walking or cycling rather than taking public transport; ideal for impromptu frisbee games. Also, the are-they-office-appropriate problem is, well, not an problem. (Marks & Spencer reported that nine out of the bestselling menswear items in the first days after it reopened were shorts.)

Haven’t figured out a daily routine everyday feels like a new day even if I’m making the same rigatoni recipe and messing up the focaccia that everyone else is making so easily #relaxinginr13