The part of summer has arrived when jeans become the enemy. Over 30 degrees, sticky fabric and a tight lower half - and suddenly the smart work dilemma is not "what to wear", but "how to look put together without melting". Stylists say the answer already exists, and it is not called leggings, but light summer trousers that replace denim without sacrificing the office look.

What all the suggestions have in common is one thing - light fabric and one interesting detail. Wide palazzo trousers in linen, in neutral or pastel tones, are the first swap: they fall softly, do not cling and go with everything. Those who want a little more pick models with ties at the cuff or with a discreet print - enough to draw the eye, yet still appropriate for work.

There are bolder variants too: trousers with floral embroidery and a flared cut, cotton in a dusty-rose colour with subtle lines, even fuchsia with a print for those not afraid of colour. But the trick all the stylists repeat is the same - the louder the trousers, the simpler the top has to be. A neutral T-shirt, clean lines, minimum jewellery on top, and the whole look holds.

And here is the quiet lesson that fashion rarely says out loud. Behind every "editorial formula" with five brands and five prices sits the same simple idea grandmothers knew long ago - light fabric for warm weather. The Balkan woman who pulls a linen shirt out of the wardrobe in summer is not "out of trend"; she invented the trend before some editorial team packaged it with a label and a price. The point is not to buy everything new, but to pull out what already works - and to wear it without guilt that it is not denim.