Dan Stevens is Editor-at-Large for thejunket.org. This article also appeared in SEVEN magazine. Follow SEVEN on Twitter @TelegraphSeven
By Dan Stevens 8:00AM BST 12 Jun 2012
If there has ever been a better invention than the hammock, then I’ve yet to hear of it. During the recent spell of jubilicious weather, I blissfully rediscovered the joys of lying, cradled, suspended in sunshine. Of course there’s the wheel, but the wheel is actually only useful if you want to go somewhere. If you’ve found where you want to be and you don’t need to move then a hammock – or “hangabout”, as my daughter dubs it – is about the most beautiful thing you could imagine.
Of course, if you do need to go somewhere then not only are wheels useful, but it also pays to have some nice threads. Next weekend sees the first-ever London Collections: Men, a fashion weekend exclusively for male attire. It’s surprising this hasn’t been done before, since London’s reputation as a hub for menswear precedes its chic status for women.
In what is fast becoming “The Year of Britain”, it seems fitting that Savile Row should be celebrated and shown off to the world and that we can finally rival the men’s fashion weeks of New York, Milan and Paris. Big names such as Burberry, Ralph Lauren and Dunhill will be represented alongside exciting, up-and-coming houses such as A Sauvage, Christopher Kane and Spencer Hart. One might think in the much-touted “Age of Austerity” that high fashion would suffer, but in fact there seems to be an implementation of the adage “Buy cheap, buy twice”: as consumers economise, it is actually the frivolous end of the market that suffers; impulse buys and petty purchases. More thought is put into where to spend your money and the longevity of apparel. And as anyone next weekend will tell you, step out in a well-loved cheap suit and you look like a tramp; but in fine togs worn to tatters you look like aristocracy.
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