Style · 30 March 2026
Linen in the City
Warm-weather tailoring that still reads like business.
Linen has a reputation for the beach, which does it a disservice. Cut sharp and kept dark, it is one of the few cloths that lets a man wear real tailoring through a city summer without surrender.
The trick is structure and colour. A pressed linen in slate, navy or olive — with a clean shoulder and a flat front trouser — holds a formal line even as it breathes. Keep the shirt crisp and the palette low, and no one reads holiday.
Save the rumpled ecru for the coast. In the city, linen earns its place by behaving like wool and feeling like air.
