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The Bermuda short hails, unsurprisingly, from Bermuda, a concession to the Atlantic archipelago’s intense heat; in certain climates, the British Army conceded, a trouser is unforgivable. Yet its influence has long spread across the world. “In the 1970s, in New Zealand, men called them walk shorts, and they were a staple of formal officewear,” says professor of fashion design…
