Monday 11th April 2011
I’ve said and said. How many times have I said: ‘DON’T RUSH INTO SUMMER CLOTHES AT THE FIRST WHIFF OF HEAT.’ Light spring wools and cardies should be on hand until early June at least.
But what do I see? In this fine weather – young men, for it is mostly young men, idiotically going about in those horrible below-the-knee-amputation-shorts, T-shirts and sandals! At nine in the morning, in early April, with the temperature barely 13 degrees.
There are also sinister signs of that horrible yachting look creeping in for summer wear as I saw on show at Prada.
Are we seriously to believe that these people have bagged up their winter clothes, sent all their heavy wools to the cleaners prior to summer storage, unbagged their summer wardrobe IN APRIL?
If the Government wants to make itself useful…
Apart from anything else, you know what summer clothes means, don’t you?
Yes! Shorts!
Ugh, ugh, ugh! No! No! No!
Before his dinner on Saturday Prince Dmitri sent out a newspaper article. It seems Tom Ford has been copying me. See below. ‘You’ll be welcome in anything,’ the Prince said, ‘except shorts.’
Well, he didn’t quite mean anything of course.
The Prince’s crackling was unsurpassed. But I don’t think he applied Val’s (you remember Val: supreme Poor Little Rich Gay on a shoestring; keen on a drop; fabulously ornamental) method of scoring the skin with a scalpel and using a precision measuring device to establish an exact distance of 4 mm between each cut. My architect, Bruce MacBain, who dined, identified all the Prince’s furniture immediately on arrival – Eileen Gray, Le Corb – then called for retail banks to be stopped from fiddling about on the Stock Market. Bruce has a portfolio which he self-runs, no broker, with unnatural (for a Poor Little Rich Gay) caution. It’s the Scottish side taking precedence. The Blond Multi and I, on the other hand, professed a passion for high risk if it brings lashings of profit.
All the same, I can’t bear an investment to collapse. I prefer to have it both ways.
Tancredo Viamare, Bruce’s partner (separate establishments, nights off) described how his car fell off the road into a ravine and turned over three times. Naturally he survived. The Photo Multi had acquired that morning an exclusive packet of seeds from the head of the Monmouth Coffee Company at Maltby Street (the new Borough Market). In addition to this provenance, the plant is one of the few that only grows in winter.
Today I’ve made progress with that floor damaged by Miroslav. Scraped away with one of Other Granny’s dinner knives. What a mess! Got to an appalling part of Rufus Pitman’s new novel where an Italian waiter has a ghastly toilet accident. Couldn’t bear to read on. Glad of diversion of floor.
Rufus also tells me that Ines de la Fressange has declared that you don’t need to wear all your diamonds all the time after a certain age. How wrong! Harry Rollo, only the other day, was calling for a massive increase in the level of diamonds for men.
So a lot of wrong in the frockage world just now!
Thank God it’s rained.
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Glad to see from this evening’s News at Ten that George Osborne has finally decided to take on board my economic policy.
Solange’s mania for the Spring Clean meant that she almost pulled the furs from beneath me. I have informed her such things will have to wait until we are certain the summer is upon us. Many friends have suggested the Cruise collections are the thing for this entr’acte of the seasons. I require convincing. They still seem to be neither fish nor fowl nor interesting red herring. It is so exhausting when the inclement weather does not conform to one’s needs.
I do so agree. It is rarely recognised that mid to late Spring and mid to late Autumn present the biggest challenge to the frockist. It just isn’t enough to sling a cardy over a cotton ensemble in the evening.
Dear Adrian Edge, what is your position on kilts please? They were being worn in Soho at the weekend.
Nicky T
PS. I do think you, Mr Hersov and T Ford have got this all wrong. Shorts are a v good thing and there are lots to choose from this year. But do avoid the ones by Comme des Garcons – terribly wide and flappy.
So sorry. Absolutely dashing for H Nicks. Kilts – needs careful thought. My first thought is yes, if with nothing else on at all. But the knees ….
I’m sure I will make a raging exception for shorts sooner or later. It is important not to be consistent. So dreary. Thank you for alerting us. Maybe suddenly they will be new this year…
I’m afraid the only shorts for me this summer are the ‘Aussie rules’ ones, very popular in Libya this year
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I fear an impostor! ‘Aussie Rules’ shorts are hard to detect on the wearer, I believe. This shorts drama will run and run. I saw some bright-blue cotton shorts in a Prep school cut yesterday at H. Nicks. Maybe we should…. why not? Just like the little tiny jackets and suitlettes, which, incidentally, I now see everywhere. Why not have shorts and get some product from SpaceNK for the knees: do they do a knee brightener?
I really do feel myself tending towards the kilt. I shall think about it in Rome