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Mr. Tweed Country Style Blog
Never Button Down and Never Button Up
The button-down shirt has been called America's sole contribution to shirt fashion. One should therefore think carefully before adding one (even if it is a classic pink Brooks Brothers "Oxford", bought on a trip to New York), to one's wardrobe, if one wishes to maintain the appearance of a conscious Anglofile. The button-down is for American Ivy-Leagers. The English Gentleman has no use for it.
And on the subject of buttons, another American trait of recent comes to mind: Namely the uncultured habit of buttoning the bottom button on your jacket. Why this unseemly oversight has become popular across the Atlantic, I have no clue, but I do know that when it comes to buttoning your jacket, there is but one eternal rule: You may only button the bottom button if you're wearing a single-buttoned jacket. Which no gentleman would be caught dead in anyway, if not from Huntsman, the famous Savile Row tailor.
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Mr. Tweed lives in Stockholm. He is most likely to be spotted driving his Jaguar on Djurgården or visiting an art or musical event. Always impeccably dressed in tweed of course.
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A tailcoat with the front skirt cut away, often worn with grey striped trousers. Replaced by the modern suit in the early twentieth century.
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