There’s no doubt that the dictates of catwalk fashion don’t rule menswear – remember David Beckham and his World Cup sarong? Yes, and how many chaps actually have a skirt in their wardrobes now? Exactly.

But some designer fashion does spill over, although it does it slowly and it hangs around longer. For the third year in a row we are seeing bright colours in menswear on the catwalks, and that means bright colours in male clothing in the shops and offered through online retailers.

This year Calvin Klein went for blues and oranges, in a sort of cubist block style, and Paul Smith, who has always had a tendency towards the ‘dressed in the dark’ approach to colour, went for a wild palette of light and dark blues, purples, and reds. So we can expect to see lots more bright T-shirts, light and striped shorts and colour contrasts between shirts and jackets in the year ahead. If you’re not confident about colour, choose your bright shade and match it with grey, so grey shorts and a yellow vest, or an orange hoodie worn with grey trousers, as grey will tone down anything too bright, while black will tend to make it look brighter.