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What men should not wear in this heat

You men would all prefer to sit in shorts in a beach chair with your left hand around a can of beer and your right hand, well, where they always habitually put it. But there needs to be money in the bank and bread on the table, so today they just go to ‘the office’. But how is the question. How?

Those are forbidden in the office garden. But really. Even if it's forty degrees, those shorts are for the boat, not for here. We're going to look at your hairy legs and especially at the footwear you've chosen to wear underneath. Because unless you're of the man-loves-man type, it's going to go terribly wrong here.

There's a man I'm very fond of (hi Dirk) who goes to the studio in Birkenstocks. Now Dirk can break a pretty good pot with me, but Birkenstocks can't be approved by my fashionable eye, not even on you. Although I understand it's difficult, in this heat. Opt for a Tod's shoe that you can wear without socks, it feels just as airy. And if you really, really, really want to go barefoot (and you have a creative profession), then I would go for a trendy slipper. But otherwise, I'm sorry, you'll have to make do with your Nikes or Tod's. #noone said it would be fun

Last year Anouk Smulders went to do the casting for Holland's Next Top Model and at every family, she encountered a father or someone else wearing a short-sleeved shirt. “That can't be right?” she exclaimed every time. At the end of the shooting day, the crew dropped her off at her house where her father, who had been nice to her children that day, opened the door... in a short-sleeved shirt.

Men. This. Cannot. Be. And soon there will be a prison sentence for short-sleeved shirts in block patterns.

  • A light shirt. Really, those long sleeves can help you against the heat too.
  • A linen jacket. They wear that in the tropics too. So you know it's good. And not warm.
  • A T-shirt. Of course, it also depends on your profession, but if it's a bit creative, you can easily get away with a shirt. Even with a low V-neck.

Good luck, men. Just think; someday it will be autumn again.