9 x SUMMER TIME RULES, TRIBES AND APPAREL STYLES TO FOLLOW AND LOOK OUT FOR ON VACATION '24
Parlez-vous vacances? Part Two. From seaside seersucker to scandalous tan suits, here are the items, trends, details and affectations you might see on the beach this August. Dive in.
THE SPREZZATURA VENTURER
Italian. Occasionally (and annoyingly) shortened from sprezzatura to “sprezzy” by the suit groupies at Florence’s Pitti Uomo during June. Defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “studied carelessness” but originating from Baldassare Castiglione’s 16th century courtesy tome, The Book of the Courtier, as “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it”. An affectation, then.
Applied most commonly to a man’s attire and general style, summer sprezziness includes foxed shirt collars, old Gucci loafers, weatherbeaten chinos, the slightly dishevelled, ‘old money’ look the men have in “Call Me By Your Name”…and the whole crew of JFK’s yacht Manitou (above).
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