Whilst in London at the end of last week I came across Irena Sedlecka’s excellent statue of Beau Brummell in Jermyn Street. Brummell argued that the well dressed gentleman should never be noticed by the singularity or flamboyance of his dress and so pioneered a simple more elegant form of dressing that was radical in its time. The problem that this message has for the modern day is that in an overtly casual age, is the suit and tie wearer standing out from the majority of wearers and therefore guilty of bad dress? Are we (and I like to place myself in this group) therefore the people who he was rebelling against (i.e. if Brummell were alive today would he be more Abercrombie and Fitch than Gieves and Hawkes)?
Monday, 2 March 2009
End of the suit?
Whilst in London at the end of last week I came across Irena Sedlecka’s excellent statue of Beau Brummell in Jermyn Street. Brummell argued that the well dressed gentleman should never be noticed by the singularity or flamboyance of his dress and so pioneered a simple more elegant form of dressing that was radical in its time. The problem that this message has for the modern day is that in an overtly casual age, is the suit and tie wearer standing out from the majority of wearers and therefore guilty of bad dress? Are we (and I like to place myself in this group) therefore the people who he was rebelling against (i.e. if Brummell were alive today would he be more Abercrombie and Fitch than Gieves and Hawkes)?
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