The beauty of Monarchy and Aristocracy!

[doghouse]

This thread needs more love.

 

[foxandhound]

 

[Journeyman]

Lovely suit, but the PoW looks as though he might be wearing some rouge on his cheeks.

Then again, maybe it's just in English peaches-and-cream complexion...

 

[doghouse]

 

[foxandhound]

Thanks to Vox here's a few more pictures to add to this thread:

 

[Journeyman]

^ I know that the 1980s was, in general, a bad decade for fashion but Princess Diana's green velvet dress and matching hat are truly dire.

 

[Journeyman]

The Japanese emperor wears a beautifully cut stroller as he announces, in typically roundabout and indirect Japanese fashion, that he may wish to abdicate in the next few years.

 

[doghouse]

The Japanese emperor wears a beautifully cut stroller as he announces, in typically roundabout and indirect Japanese fashion, that he may wish to abdicate in the next few years.

Always put him in the top five for best dressed of the 20th century.

 

[doghouse]

 

[FriendCustomer]

The Japanese emperor wears a beautifully cut stroller as he announces, in typically roundabout and indirect Japanese fashion, that he may wish to abdicate in the next few years.

not a stroller.

 

[Journeyman]

not a stroller.

Really? I was going to say morning dress but then I thought that it was more like a stroller. I must admit, though, that I'm far from an expert in these matters.

 

[LKP]

not a stroller.

 

[prince nez]

RIP.

 

[Lobbster]

German aristocrat Harry Clemens Ulrich Graf von Kessler, a rather intersteing fellow.

 

[Robert]

DoW RIP? Fuck that cunt. Eat the rich.

 

[FriendCustomer]

DoW RIP? Fuck that cunt. Eat the rich.

find another thread to talk your bullshit politics. this thread is for winners.

 

[güero]

 

[doghouse]

Some of you guys would be better off in a prole fashion thread.

 

[güero]

A joke, dammit. Now please continue, my little subjects.

 

[foxandhound]

Again, credit goes to Vox for unearthing the picture.

 

[The Shooman]

His suits really are amazing!

 

[robertito]

Is the length of the sleeve deliberately so long?

BTW who dresses now his son? Richard James? I don't think is AS. Have you seen the latests sport jackets? Tiny, tiny lapels.

 

[verrihappy]

Swedish royalty trumps the Brits.

 

[güero]

At last, a well deserved RIP:

 

[viaattovannucci]

Lord Kenneth Clark (art historian):

And with the obligatory "collo americano":

 

[viaattovannucci]

Lord Kenneth Clark (art historian):

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And with the obligatory "collo americano":
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O, the fragility of civilization. . .

 

[viaattovannucci]

 

[FriendCustomer]

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[Lord Buckley]

I use to be a staunch Red-Wedge "Them Russkies knew how to deal with Royalty" agitator, but the benefits of the British and Dutch monarchy are fine examples of how hereditary royalty can work in democracies. And once they did away with hereditary peers in the House of Lords they opened the door to rank mediocrities and dross getting GBP 300 a day for gratis.

 

[doghouse]

I use to be a staunch Red-Wedge "Them Russkies knew how to deal with Royalty" agitator, but the benefits of the British and Dutch monarchy are fine examples of how hereditary royalty can work in democracies. And once they did away with hereditary peers in the House of Lords they opened the door to rank mediocrities and dross getting GBP 300 a day for gratis.

You are learning grasshopper.

 

[viaattovannucci]

Anthony Armstrong-Jones, photographer and 1st Earl of Snowdon.

RIP, Lord Snowdon.

 

[viaattovannucci]

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

At last, a well deserved RIP:

Just noticed he has what appears to be Swatch watch on, what a canny buyer!

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

Who's a pretty boy then:

 

[TheUntermensch]

Really? I was going to say morning dress but then I thought that it was more like a stroller. I must admit, though, that I'm far from an expert in these matters.

A stroller is what Mr Banks wears in 'Mary Poppins'. That's a morning suit.

 

[viaattovannucci]

A peace offering of sorts: Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011), an actual British WWII-hero. Sponge fisher, Nazi hunter, travel writer extraordinaire. . .

At last, a bonus. . . Sir Leigh Fermor rocking the eye patch at a book signing:

 

[aristoi bcn]

I read all his books, one of my favourites writers and lover of the hellenic culture.

Thanks for posting.

 

[prince nez]

I read all his books, one of my favourites writers and lover of the hellenic culture.

Thanks for posting.

I think the concluding volume of the trilogy that recounts his journey through Europe in the 1930s was finally published (posthumously) a year or two ago. Have been meaning to pick up a copy for a bit of summer reading.

 

[viaattovannucci]

I read all his books, one of my favourites writers and lover of the hellenic culture.

Thanks for posting.

Thanks! He is truly amazing. . . And indeed I should have added Philhellene, Lord Byron of the 20th century to the above list of monikers. . .

"Paradox reconciles all contradictions."

 

[viaattovannucci]

Prince Michael of Kent with a fine gray turtleneck: