The London Lounge

I agree with the Tiffany recommendation. It's an excellent range and you can buy any of the stock in your price bracket over the internet from their excellent site. Of course, you could buy similar merchandise for less elsewhere but Tiffany do employ very good designers and if there is a fault in th...

Has anyone had a suit made from Scabal's "Business Class" cloth? It claims to be stain and crease resistant. When I felt some swatches in the book it was light weight and slightly stretchy. I was told that the latter was a function of the weave. The patterns were perfectly agreeable. For the train /...

Creed's Neroli Sauvage is surely the perfect summer light fragrance. Otherwise... Le Dandy and Terre d'Hermes, with the second being the more versatile - which probably means more conventional. I tried to buy Signoricci in Selfridges (London) a fortnight ago but was told it had been discontinued. Al...

Yesterday, I heard an elderly gentleman say: "I was always told - if you don't wear a hat, how can you take it off to say hello?" For my own part, when I first went to school in the 1960s, I wore a typical English schoolboy's cap. We were taught to remove our caps to grown-ups unless it was raining ...