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Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world.
On Instagram, Bella Hadid reclines in Hockney pool-blue vintage Prada shorts and a matching oversized shirt. Dior’s models look ready for the ring in primary-hued boxing shorts and coordinating shirts. At Valentino, silhouettes are strewn with flowers; Brandon Maxwell’s take is enlivened with neon swirls. It’s a style that crosses fashion lines: up-and-coming labels like Marcia, Alfie, and Le Set are showing their own versions, as are mass brands like Abercrombie & Fitch.
The shorts set—the vacation-ready cousin of the primmer shorts suit—has run riot on all of our feeds. With its billowing shape, it sits in stark contrast to the body-con mania that’s dominated most of the past few seasons. Instead, it’s loose, tomboyish, and insouciantly sexy—a cool-girl uniform in a sea of try-hards.
