Welcome to Jeans Month on the Strategist, where we’re obsessively vetting denim — from trying on every pair at the Gap to ...

"I am very interested to know how the fashion of short trousers for boys came about. It seems to have started in the early 1920s and finished about 1960. Photographs before the 1914-18 war show ...

For many years, Boy Scouts were noted for wearing short trousers. Nowadays, postmen are the men most likely to be wearing ...