How To Wear Plaid Shorts

Shorts can be a difficult piece of clothing to wear when choosing a summer wardrobe. But whatever your style, stylist Mandy Lehto (Color Me Beautiful) has some great, easy tips to help you get a young, trendy look, or more relaxed older-fashioned look with a pair of plaid shorts. Enlarge

How To Wear Plaid Shorts

Shorts can be a difficult piece of clothing to wear when choosing a summer wardrobe. But whatever your style, stylist Mandy Lehto (Color Me Beautiful) has some great, easy tips to help you get a young, trendy look, or more relaxed older-fashioned look with a pair of plaid shorts.

Choosing plaid shorts, this is a look that can be worn in two ways. Obviously, it comes from much more traditional heritage look, tends to be worn by older gentlemen, and has that little bit of golf feel to it, and that's certainly one way that this look can be worn. However, it can also be worn in a completely fun, fresh, different way.

You can style this look up in a very fun, youthful, contemporary way, possibly by putting it together with a crisp shirt, for example. There is that tailored look to it, so it is far removed from the other end of the spectrum, looking at cargo shorts and much more sporty versions. This, you can put with a white shirt, together with a t-shirt, something upscale, logoed, or even just go for a plain color, moving it far away from that heritage golf look, and making the look your own.

I think the point is that if you're going with that young, fresh, vibrant look, is to really, really go for the look and make it your own. So, top tip is either staying with that heritage, golf, older-fashioned look, or taking it and making it into a much more youthful fashion trend look and bearing in mind the accessories, footwear, tops that you would wear to choose one or the other. If you're going to play on that youth trend, and making it a bit fun, you can actually take this look and move it completely away from looking very formal.

Maybe putting it with a pair of converse, with short socks, ankle socks in there, putting it together with any kind of sandal, maybe a nice, upscale flip-flop with that, again bearing in mind that the look is very, very tailored, so if you're going to play that look, and funk it up a little bit, putting it together with a Plimsoll, you know that could be very nice. And those are a few ideas for choosing plaid shorts. .