As we mark the anniversary of VE day this week, Stephen Doig pays tribute to the British icon's wardrobe “I am a man of simple tastes.
I am easily satisfied with the best,” Sir Winston Churchill famously said. His love of the finer things was well documented: Savile Row suits as a teen, Dunhill cigars at 15 and Harrods’ koi carp at Chartwell.
But for all his love of the rarefied, his wardrobe was designed to be practical and serve a purpose; it cemented an image and demonstrated strength in our darkest days.
It’s one that’s being evoked a great deal at the moment (see the handsome suiting of Captain Tom Moore, pin sharp when others around the country are in tracksuits), as we battle a new war against Covid-19, and particularly as we mark
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