WIMBLEDON

Wimbledon prides itself on having no dress code at all, which sounds like freedom until you watch what everyone actually wears.

There is a standard. Nobody writes it down, and almost nobody breaks it. A jacket gets you through the gate. What gets you noticed, in the right way, is everything chosen around it: the tie, the pocket square, the quiet decisions that separate a man who has thought about the day from one who has simply turned up.

What follows is a guide to making those decisions with a little more certainty than most arrive with.