What I wore this week: the half-tuck shirt

‘It’s eye-catching, because it looks at once dishevelled and deliberate. Carefully scruffy, if you will’

What with the week of national drama on which we are poised to embark, I thought it a fitting moment to address an issue that challenges long-held assumptions and strikes to the very core of our identity. All around us, the old ways of doing things are being questioned. At every turn, there is disillusionment with the status quo, a yearning for a fresh start.

I speak of the burning issue of the season, which is whether to embrace the half-tuck. For centuries, standpoints on shirt tails have divided neatly into two camps. You tucked your shirt in, or you let it all hang out. The two were entirely distinct looks and said pretty much everything about you that the rest of the world needed to know.