Images credit: TheSartorialist.com and anortherndandy.blogspot.com They say “dress for the job you want not the job you’ve got”. Sound advice, but surely this rule should apply to more than just matters of employment. Who says going on a date or taking your girl out to dinner needs to be done in a drab urban uniform of jeans and a shirt, or most likely T-shirt. Dress for the job you want! Dress for the life you want should be the … [Read more...]
It has become my custom to look forward to the new season. Spring is just around the corner, and my thoughts have strayed – as is their wont - from the chilly dullness of the present to the blossom and breeze to come. However, it seems a little age and experience have crept into my thinking of late as I found myself glancing over my shoulder at the dying remains of the recent winter sale; those little red and white signs hidden between the … [Read more...]
It is over a year since I last contributed to this series. The simple truth of the lapse is that though I must have seen over 50 films in that period, none of them stirred anything inside me which was capable of inspiration. None, that is, until I saw The King’s Speech. A film that has received plaudits from far and wide – from the New York Times to Her Majesty herself – it is easy to regard The King’s Speech ‘superficially’ as … [Read more...]
Ever since I was a small boy I’ve had a deep and abiding love for Lotus Cars. This is partly the result of growing up a bike ride away from the Hethel factory and test track; in the summer holidays I regularly rode down to the test track in the hopes of seeing an Esprit go around the track. My ardour was only intensified when at the age of eight I saw my first James Bond movie, ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’, a film notable only for the Lotus … [Read more...]
Last week my five-year-old son asked my wife why we did not dress him in “nice” clothes. Bear in mind that much of his wardrobe is a miniaturized version of my more casual attire. For school he wears blue jeans with sweaters or simple solid-colored polo shirts. Over that he may wear a navy pea coat, a waxed cotton jacket or a bright yellow rain slicker. At church he might be seen in navy blue pants, a white dress shirt, gray cardigan and red, … [Read more...]
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