Style Column
GREY FOX COLUMN David Evans of www.greyfoxblog.com pays sartorial homage to Charlie Watts, and advocates experimentation within established formal dress codes www.greyfoxblog.com
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“What goes round comes round in fashion and no doubt such Armani shapes will return in due course. When it does so, it will be a form of fashion rather than style. To me, style is about enhancement, not draping concealment”
t the time of the late lamented Charlie Watts’ death at the age of 80, I was pondering on the nature of style. Why do some people look great in their clothes while many of us struggle? While thinking what a stylish man the Rolling Stones’ drummer was, I looked up an image of him I’d used my blog a few years ago. It shows Watts wearing a beautifully cut Prince of Wales check suit, looking very relaxed with a beaming smile on his face. Another favourite picture shows him perched on
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