Tailors Tips

Well hello there, let me introduce myself, My name is Charles Ponsenby-Smythe, your online tailor.
My page is here to offer dressing and etiquette tips to all you gentlemen.

Tip of the Week:

A Chap and His Hat

I recently recieved a wire from a good friend, who suggested our latest tip should concern that essential element of gentlemanly dress, the humble hat:

My dearest chaps,
please find enclosed my humble offerings for your tailors tips page.
yours,
like my martini's, stirred but never shaken,
Paul Mountebank-SmytheHats:

No Gentleman of any repute should ever consider consider leaving his
residence without a hat placed firmly on his head.
As well as keeping the head warm and free of rain it serves a number of
other useful purposes. Firstly it distinguishes one as a man of taste
and refinement, quite separate from the hoards of wage slaves forced
into odious nylon two-piece affairs. Secondly should one find one self
the subject of the unwonted attention of overhead CCTV cameras, one
merely has to pull forward the brim in a suitably rakish manner and hey
presto! a darkening shadow is cast over your face. You will also find
that this maneuver works wonders when attempting to charm the ladies.

Absolutely my dear Paul,
however I would offer a couple of words of warning to those hat virgins amongst our ranks.

As everyone knows there are a great many styles of hat to choose from, this however should not be seen as something to celebrate. The contemporary world of hats is a veritable minefield, far from instantly and automatically bestowing the wearer with an aura of superiority, you can simply look a bloody fool.

Best then stick to a couple of old favourites, the faithful trilby (pictured above) and the bowler (below).

Personally I tend to stick to the trilby myself, versatile and suave in comparison to the rigid and business like bowler. However the choice is yours my old bean.