The Summer Brewery Fit

Taylor Stitch's Pacific Polo arrives pre-washed in rinsed indigo, cuts regular and true to size, and at $98 for GOTS-certified organic cotton pique it asks almost nothing of you while giving most of what you want from a warm-weather polo.

Wax London's Milton graphic tee runs 220gsm compact cotton at £90, and the back-graphic placement is either the whole point or a dealbreaker, depending on the kind of attention you want.

Wax London's Milton tee is 220gsm organic cotton with embroidered sun doodles across the front and sleeves: a specific piece for a specific mood, made in Turkey at £105.

Wax London's Dean t-shirt in ecru and rust is a 240gsm organic cotton jersey with an embroidered seashell grid on the back, OCS certified, made in Bangladesh, and priced at £100 -- a fair trade for the fabric weight and character, if not a construction standout.

Taylor Stitch's Hawthorne Shirt in Blue Pin Dot Dobby is a 7-oz. garment-washed organic cotton camp collar with felled seams and a flat hem, at $148, it's one of the more honestly constructed options in a crowded category.

Drake's khaki Japanese linen camp collar shirt costs $375, runs true to size, and is specific enough in its military detailing that you'll know immediately whether it's for you.

Portuguese Flannel's Piquet Stripe is a $163 short-sleeve made in Guimarães from a waffle-textured cotton weave with woven stripes and mother-of-pearl buttons, and it makes a reasonable case for itself on construction alone.

Portuguese Flannel's Victoria is a $188 embroidered camp collar made in Guimarães by a family that has run the same mills since 1935, and the pattern is either exactly your thing or not your thing at all.

Portuguese Flannel's Atlantico Stripe Shorts bring the family's Guimarães mill cotton into a $140 seersucker short that lands at a solid 7 on make quality and won't embarrass you on either end of the formality spectrum.

Taylor Stitch's 6 oz. garment-dyed hemp Après Short in Coal runs true to size, uses double-needle felled construction throughout, and costs $108 before any Workshop discount.

Wax London's £150 Kurt shorts are garment-washed 100% linen in a relaxed cut that runs true to size — competent warm-weather basics, not travel shorts.

Wax London's Kurt shorts run £145 in a textured herringbone cotton-linen, true to size, relaxed cut, and worth a look if you want a warm-weather short that doesn't read like a chino.