Worried about your beach body? Take a lesson from Gen Z | Zoe Williams

Young women find my generation's reflexive, internalised fat-shaming weird and ridiculous. So, at 50, I'm taking a leaf from their book Mr Z was having a crisis of confidence, due to the change of seasons. He thinks summer's easy when you're young; you just wear fewer clothes. In middle age all these questions crowd in: are you allowed to wear shorts? Where do you stand on vests? Should you be worrying about your body hair? What if it's greying? Did society ever land on a decision regarding sock...