Sartorial
Get The Look
RIVIERA STYLE Digby Fairfax ambles down to the Cote D’Azur (or Bognor Regis if it’s raining) to show readers how to decant themselves into the Riviera Look
£180.00
SHOES A word of warning to the travelling chap, whether to foreign climes or the English Riviera: you are very likely to encounter the shoeless. By this we mean the flip-flopped, or, even worse, those gentlemen who feel it appropriate to don the ghastly Birkenstock sandal. While exterior temperatures will, it must be admitted, preclude the full brogue boot on the beach, there is no need to allow standards to drop so low. Besides, one would aver that there is no known trouser that looks good with a sandal. However, Grenson have produced the Quincy Sandal, priced at £180, based on those available in most traditional shoe shops in southern Europe, which at least covers the toes and the heel. Upon your next visit to Spain or Portugal, snap up a pair of these ‘halfsandals’ for the next jaunt. In the meantime, a more economical pair, the Angulus, is available from www.footway.com at £116 (they will cost you around half that ‘in the field’). Saddle Shoes are another light option, for a shoe that you could actually enter a restaurant in. Rocket Originals and Collectif make them for men, priced at £99 and £95 respectively. Loafers, obviously, also cut the mustard, but not ones with bits of metal sticking out of the saddle: Jones the Bootmaker make an acceptable Penny Loafer for £89, and don’t forget to stick a penny into the upper for that preppy detail.
£116.00
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