In 1978 Douglas Sutherland published a little humorous breviary entitled The English Gentleman. The 140 page parody of the style manual details in a

Walk softly…

With these words a notorious, late 19th century American statesman described his foreign policy. He was no doubt thinking of boots. However

The penultimate cover in the gentleman’s wardrobe is the shield between his shirt and the abrasion from movement in the world. A wooden vessel

Ever since saccharine was sold to the US Army in the Great War as a cheap substitute for natural sugar, there has been a

At the end of the 20th century the rapid rate of changes in society and the economy stimulated an awareness of new challenges and

In my youth, ready-to-wear was still a luxury. These items were imported, too. Instead my mother, like the mothers of many of my schoolmates,

Today we take the unique for granted, like we think nothing of a “short” trip of some six thousand miles. There was an era,