Not your grandpa’s closet!

Not your grandpa’s closet!

By a new guest writer Oly Green

Illustrations and photos by Maria Lavigina

Walking around the streets of London you often see unique and fashionable people in vintage clothing. Some areas are known for being the dwellings of the young and hip hipsters, with their ironic moustaches, non-prescription glasses and immaculately selected clothing looking as if they raided their grandpa’s closet. They are young, they are hip and they are cool, but they will never be as cool as this grandpa!

His name is George and let’s face it; he was hip before the hipsters knew what hip means! Everything he is wearing is absolutely awe inspiring. From the hat down to the 40’s gangster shoes, the devil is definitely in the details and what a handsome devil he is!

That perfectly tailored overcoat would be the envy of every fashionista (actually, I can see our own Maria Lavigina totally rocking it), especially accessorized so smartly with a colourful pocket square and a matching dash flower. The matching trousers are the perfect cut and length for him (Gentlemen, take note) and if suspenders were not back in fashion already they would have to be now. For the perfect finishing touch (for those of us with a keen eye) there is the self-tie bow tie, the summit of bow tie devotees. “Perhaps most of all, wearing a bow tie is a way of broadcasting an aggressive lack of concern for what other people think.                                                                                                              —Waren St John, The New York Times

I can imagine his closet, a classic walk-in in which, in perfect order, tailored and custom-made items just waiting to be put on in an ensemble of chic and style to defy the ages.