Shirt Update!

Recently I discovered The Savile Row Shirt Co. Beautiful shirts and the only place I know to do tab collars and pin collar shirts! Mad Men's Roger Sterling's favourite style, and they look fantastic!
http://www.savilerowco.com/

 They also produce some fine ties, nice skinny ones, and their prices are excellent!
On the timepiece front, I am lured by one of these at the moment!

2002 "Brosnan" model. The latest  'Daniel Craig'Planet Ocean' is nice, but this dial is easier to see for my shortsighted eyes!

Hurrah! 50's/60's Style Returns!

Its back! with the phenomenal effect Mad Men has had on the cognoscenti,take another look at todays ads. Sinatra style vocals everywhere, from washing powder to Cars. Check the entertainment shows, Vernon Kay in slim ties and sharp suits, Phillip Schofield in pin collar shirts and Mohair, Holly Willoghby in fifties dresses, the style, look and cool of the coolest time in history is back! This time round its late fifties American jet set meets early sixties British cool, and what a package it is.
Why? let's examine it for a moment. Todays world, full of technology as it is, with new innovations every day, is totaly devoid of any real style or content. Todays bands and singers, be it charts or X-factor, are churning out covers of sixties stuff. Wonder-boy Paolo Nuttini number one in the album charts, is a poor copy of Louis Prima. Lady Ga-Ga, outrageous costumes whilst playing piano ans singing rubbish songs-Liberace and Elton John have already done it! If you are going to emulate 50's/80's style, at least do it right!
However it is presented, there is no doubt the cool 50's and 60's chic is back in a big way, probably because for the younger of us the style seems be totally new, for others, it still has that fond nostalgia that can be relived! Today its not just the music, brilliant as it is, (I'm not talking rock and roll, or 60's britpop here, but the cool sounds of Frank, Dino, Julie London, Blossom Dearie, Chet Baker etc.) the whole look and feel of the time has been rediscovered; let's pause for a moment and let the Master provide a class in cool!



Thanks Frank! Readers of this Blog, new or old will see I had it spot on with my clothing predictions and tips, so here goes for the whole look! This week, month, or whenever I am not to busy living it to write it, lets look at some collectable, affordable and totaly cool items for the home.

Ridgway Homemaker. Once easily available through Woolworth of all places, is now up and coming again, with the rarer items like salt and pepper pots, coffee jugs and tureens now rising in price again. Keep your eyes open for 'em to host your next chic tea party!



Rarer, and more collectable is the Midwinter range, with designers like Jessie Tait, Terrance Conran and Hugh Casson




The thing is, although they are collectable, beautiful object in their own right, they are also eminently usable, and soooo totaly now! Grab 'em before the prices soar, you have been warned!