Accessories
BURDEN OF REAMS Gustav Temple advocates paying as much care and attention to the portmanteau in the hand as one does to the suit of clothes on the body
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“There is a fashion for men with large beards, tattoos and a sense of selfimportance to sling their portmanteaux over their shoulders via a shoulder strap. This aids them to cycle furiously on a singlespeed velocipede towards important meetings with small-batch coffee roasters and producers of podcasts”
hat is wrong with the above photograph, apart from the fact that the gentleman is not wearing a hat? The poor fellow has clearly made an effort to dress smartly, by donning a blue two-piece suit, but what is that thing weighing down his right shoulder? If he’s about to go trekking in the Himalayas, he’s wearing the wrong clothes entirely and he’ll definitely need at least a Panama hat, if not a Solar Topi. The leather briefcase in his right hand indicates that he is not on the way to the airport to catch the first plane to Nepal, but on his way to a business meeting of some kind. There is no business setting in which whoever he is meeting
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