Pair your ideal sandals with dark jeans or any color of chinos and a button-down shirt for summer Friday at the office.
Your boss won't be looking at their chinos and thinking: great trousers, great chap, I want to promote him.
Where once you had an old pair of chinos, now you have a bona fide catwalk look.
In newly purchased polo shirts and chinos, the four husky men, might blend in except for their scruffy beards.
"A lot of people hate me, " Mr. Zou says, slumped in his executive desk chair in a yellow golf shirt and khaki chinos. "They think I'm stealing their fortune."
And in that context, though I have no way of assessing the dress choices of Sarkozy or Obama, I can say that if Cameron's wife is anything to go by, his sports jacket-and-chinos thing may be genuine.
