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Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands with further turtleneck inspiration:
The beauty of Monarchy and Aristocracy!
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Some of my favourites of `The Queen'.
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The Queen on the throne.
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Ludwig von Battenberg aka Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
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Prinz Bernhard zur Lippe-Biesterfeld, Prince of the Netherlands, Prince Consort to Queen Juliana. He was apparently one of the real-life sources of the James Bond character along with Sir Leigh Fermor, who was featured above, and, of course, Ian Fleming himself. It turns out that he served in "His Majesty's Secret Service" during WWII when he was in exile in London, and it was Fleming who had thoroughly interviewed him for his security clearance.
Note the ever-present white carnation as boutonnière:
Note the ever-present white carnation as boutonnière:
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The Man.
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Oh I don't know. I suppose he's just one of those men who was born great, and had further greatness thrust upon him.
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Edinburgh may be a mere Prince Consort, but he is the King of the DB here:
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And Norwegian split-toe loafers. Fascinating.
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Not quite, his Naval career was outstanding and out of interest Noel Coward's In Which We Serve is loosely based on HMS Kelly. He may have been born a priviliged member of the aristocracy, but this didn't stop him from putting the effort in and achieving greatness.
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More Prince Bernhard goodness:
So good that he can crack a smile and get away with matching his tie and pocket square. . .
So good that he can crack a smile and get away with matching his tie and pocket square. . .
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Your new jackets are a little baggy around the upper chest and arms. Il Vecchio's fit is perfect though.
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Maximum fruitcake
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Well, he did turn bandit in later life.
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Brigadier Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington.
This is why you are not supposed to throw anything away, ever:
Some late-in-life hair sprezz:
With the Queen:
This is why you are not supposed to throw anything away, ever:
Some late-in-life hair sprezz:
With the Queen:
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when I look at pictures of those extremely well dressed old blokes I realize how ubiquitous full chests and extended shoulders are.
Yet every fashion site mentions how a correct fit is a close fit and no shoulder extension at all. They're really misleading beginners.
Yet every fashion site mentions how a correct fit is a close fit and no shoulder extension at all. They're really misleading beginners.
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[Insert some gratuitous discourse on the distinction between fashion and style here]
More seriously, though, I hope that you realize some of the fit that you are describing has much to do with aging in one's clothes.
Mortality, the sordid business of living and dying, and making out of that an art by inhabiting your material and spiritual finitude.
Yada yada yada. . .
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I ascribe it to people rightly steering the proles away from the anoited. I would hate to see a bunch of jumped up office workers impersonating people who matter.
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I am very aware of the aging thing, but you see it on new bespoke as well.
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Looks like he's found the ideal solution for the strange sartorial affliction of fly-away lapels on the left hand side.
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I was just about to cluelessly write “His son, the 9th Duke of Wellington.” But I realize now that you’re asking for what almost looks like a second breast pocket, yet not quite.
Wow, I’ve never seen anything like it before!
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Well spotted, I missed the two breast/one ticket/watch pocket??
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It looks like a jetted, well pocket in which he deposited his (reading) glasses.
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Flexible tailors are not good
Another example (does not fit into thus thread though)
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Wellesley junior looks positively creepy.
And beauty of aristocracy my arse. At least his father had the grace to serve in the military. The 9th Duke is a businessman. That's trade, not aristocracy.
And beauty of aristocracy my arse. At least his father had the grace to serve in the military. The 9th Duke is a businessman. That's trade, not aristocracy.
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zomg vintard
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Many aristocrats were involved in trade, in fact, after the industrial revolution most were.
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Young Simon Chatto has been told to smarten himself up and rightly so:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...N-SHAKESPEARE-Sam-Chatto-told-smarten-up.html
His parents had such high hopes for him and good job his grandad stepped in to give a good talking to:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...N-SHAKESPEARE-Sam-Chatto-told-smarten-up.html
His parents had such high hopes for him and good job his grandad stepped in to give a good talking to:
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Philip the Greek:
Prince Michael of Kent and his TOP-sechs two-tone AP RO:
And some Principe Carlo:
Prince Michael of Kent and his TOP-sechs two-tone AP RO:
And some Principe Carlo:
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Lord Clark. . .
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^
Lord Clark of Civilisation.
Lord Clark of Civilisation.
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The working classes used to attach great importance to being well dressed and were sometimes well dressed themselves - Sunday Best - despite lack of money and that many opportunities to be suited and booted. It is a lot easier for cashed-up idlers with butlers to be well turned out.
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Working class kings and queens who also did their own tailoring and alterations:-
https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/books/485089/Facts-about-pearly-kings-and-queens
https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/books/485089/Facts-about-pearly-kings-and-queens
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Hard times when you had to pawn your only pair of trahseez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfuAHwCpPNo
But still took as much care about your appearance when you did have a full set of clothes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VamRn-gKSgI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfuAHwCpPNo
But still took as much care about your appearance when you did have a full set of clothes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VamRn-gKSgI
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^
The above sobriquet was an insult used to mock him after the broadcast of Berger's Marxist tome Ways of Seeing.
The above sobriquet was an insult used to mock him after the broadcast of Berger's Marxist tome Ways of Seeing.
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Precisely.
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Nostalgie de la boue seems these days, to be the order of the day...