A young Desmond Guiness photographed in County Kildare in 1963, with Leixlip Castle in the background. The castle dates from the Norman invasion of 1171 with the round tower added in the 14th Century.
But for the five sleeve buttons on his blazer, perfection.
Monday, April 7, 2008
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Will - very dapper indeed. I am sure someone will express his disdain though for the lack of shirt cuffs showing...
Who needs shirt cuffs when one has such perfectly fitting sleeves?:)
Even from this angle, one can only perceive bespoke perfection. Wow.
You are mistaken, Will. A true, British, regimental blazer has five buttons on the sleeves, is a six-button double-breasted, and has no vents. The buttons are meant to be the brass buttons from off a regimental great-coat.
But it isn't a six button DB Jason. Still, I take your point.
I had a chance recently to buy a 3 button navy blazer at a considerable discount but did not do so thinking it was more correct to wear a 2 button. But seeing this nice photo makes me regret not buying the 3 button blazer.
Beautiful photo -- I particularly like the setting. In addition to the well tailored jacket of course.
Great hair. I love this pic, one of my favourite S.A. photos. There's another photo of him wearing a psychedelic sport coat/robe.
Five buttons on the sleeves is sometimes worn by former members of the Welsh Guards, although in this case it's an affectation since Guinness, as near as I can tell, never served. I have seen photos of former officers of the Coldstream Guards wearing four buttons on the sleeves in groups of two, and eight buttons on the chest in groups of two, as per the regiment's uniforms. Not "correct"? Who are we to insist?
Will, you are correct--I didn't look closely at the front.
Tony, the button arrangement you are thinking of would correspond to how the different regiments of the Brigade of Guards wear the buttons on their No. 1 uniforms. But it would be **very** whimsical to arrange one's blazer buttons similarly, surely.
In any case, it's a really splendid photograph, isn't it?
Laguna, in the other photograph you mention, Guinness isn't wearing a psychedelic sport coat—though at university in the 1950s, he apparently raised eyebrows by wearing tight leopard-print trousers and blousy silk shirts, oh, my! In that other Slim Aarons snap, Guinness is wearing what appears to be an ikat-print smoking jacket.
he looks like the sartorialist
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