Summertime, and the livin’ is easy – especially with our guide to effortless dressing.

MR PORTER’s headquarters is in the United Kingdom, a place where people love to drink tea, eat potato-based meals and complain about the weather. So, with the onset of summer, after a debilitating few months of grimacing through the wind and rain and cold, everyone here is starting to say things like “It’s nice that it’s hot, but does it have to be so hot?” (for the record, it’s 23°C most days, with scattered showers). Ridiculous as this may seem, it does also touch upon a truth about warm weather: though it makes you want to run around outside, it also makes you want to lie down on some sort of reclining piece of furniture, preferably with an ice cream, book or newspaper in your sweaty mitts. Knowing that, for all of you we see climbing mountains and running marathons on Instagram, there will also be plenty riding out the heat with a tub of Häagen-Dazs and a pitcher of lemonade. So we’ve put together the following edit of the pieces you will need while you, for want of a more elegant term, veg out in the heat this summer.