Why do British men wear socks and jackets during the intense heat? After years of sweating through summer parties, I’ve made a breakthrough in this heat-wave year, dispensing with socks, jacket and tie. I’m all for formality, but not in the face of 80-degree heat and torrents of sweat.
Still, I feel like a pariah in my new sockless, jacketless incarnation. A friend berated me at a steaming hot party earlier this month for not wearing a jacket.
I was the only jacketless man at the party and I did feel like a fish out of water surrounded by the fully clothed. Still, I wasn’t a sweating fish out of water.
