Category: Fashion

Around the Houses

George II gave 10 Downing Street to the government to provide a home in perpetuity for Prime Ministers and First Lords of the Treasury in 1735. At the time Robert Walpole was PM.

Life is a Cabaret

The frocks, the flowers – oh what a thoroughly modern wedding. I don’t exactly know when I was considered too old to be a page boy at fashionable weddings in Co Louth but my career was terminated well before I had any hair on my chest or had considered the possibilities of cross-dressing. Something I’m… Continue reading Life is a Cabaret

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Bermuda Shorts

Rules are rules. In Japan the climbing season for Mount Fuji is 1st July until 14th September. 

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Uniform

Christmas quiz; what links Charles Saatchi, guest blogger Ned York and me? Here’s a picture clue.

Keep Safe

A small squidgy parcel popped through the letter box yesterday. It contained four face masks adorned with the Bellew arms: sable, fretty or.

Daydream

“They seek him here, they seek him there Those Frenchies seek him everywhere Is he in heaven or is he in hell? That demned elusive Pimpernel” 

My Perfect Summer

FTWeekend has lost some of its appeal, so many articles are advertisements in disguise (advertorial). So it was refreshing to read Jonathan Heaf’s piece on men’s smells.

In Vogue

You wait ages for a fashion documentary and then two come along. Valentino: The Last Emperor came out in 2008 and the following year The September Issue; both cracking good films.

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