Dapper Dan Says: "A scarf if obligatory." So today, with the help of Valet Magazine, we will look at one of myriad possible outcomes when looping un foulard around ton cou.
Rivendell's got a top for your dome that will keep 75% of the style from leaking out through the top of your head. It's reversible -- and it's wool -- the fabric of choice for the dapper cyclist braving inclimate weather.Please understand me I do not believe the bicycle will go out of use it has its place in the economy of transportation and pleasure giving. It does annihilate distance, and does obliterate time. It is convenient. It is the very acme of athletics and all that belongs to that kind of sport. The bike as a fad has passed away but it finds its advocates and its users. It is folly to deny this or to underrate their numbers. Their name is myriad but the riders of the bike are no longer the carriage buyers or the carriage users.By League of American Wheelmen
1. THOU SHALT ALWAYS WEAR TWEED. No other fabric says so defiantly: I am a man of panache, savoir-faire and devil-may-care, and I will not be served Continental lager beer under any circumstances.
2 THOU SHALT NEVER NOT SMOKE. Health and Safety "executives" and jobsworth medical practitioners keep trying to convince us that smoking is bad for the lungs/heart/skin/eyebrows, but we all know that smoking a bent apple billiard full of rich Cavendish tobacco raises one's general sense of well-being to levels unimaginable by the aforementioned spoilsports.
4 THOU SHALT NEVER, EVER, WEAR PANTALOONS DE NIMES. When you have progressed beyond fondling girls in the back seats of cinemas, you can stop wearing jeans. Wear fabrics appropriate to your age, and, who knows, you might even get a quick fumble in your box at the opera.
5 THOU SHALT ALWAYS DOFF ONE'S HAT. Alright, so you own a couple of trilbies. Good for you - but it's hardly going to change the world. Once you start actually lifting them off your head when greeting, departing or simply saluting passers-by, then the revolution will really begin.
6 THOU SHALT NEVER FASTEN THE LOWEST BUTTON ON THY WESKIT. Look, we don't make the rules, we simply try to keep them going. This one dates back to Edward VII, sufficient reason in itself to observe it.
7 THOU SHALT ALWAYS SPEAK PROPERLY. It's quite simple really. Instead of saying "Yo, wassup?", say "How do you do?"
8 THOU SHALT NEVER WEAR PLIMSOLLS WHEN NOT DOING SPORT. Nor even when doing sport. Which you shouldn't be doing anyway. Except cricket.
9 THOU SHALT ALWAYS WORSHIP AT THE TROUSER PRESS. At the end of each day, your trousers should be placed in one of Mr. Corby's magical contraptions, and by the next morning your creases will be so sharp that they will start a riot on the high street.
10 THOU SHALT ALWAYS CULTIVATE INTERESTING FACIAL HAIR. By interesting we mean moustaches, not beards.
The Chap believes that a society without courteous behaviour and proper headwear is a society on the brink of moral and sartorial collapse, and it seeks to reinstate such outmoded but indispensable gestures as hat doffing, giving up one's seat to a lady and regularly using a trouser press.
[Manifesto via The Chap Magazine]
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.
Because we dig the calluses on the palms of our hands. Because we actually kind of like when our legs feel like Jell-O. Because we crave the brisk wind on our cheeks. Because we recall with fondness fastening Topps cards to chain stays. Because today we actually prefer the non-motor bike anyway. Because it’s the paragon of efficiency for personal transit and a perfect machine and a work of art.
There are more than 2 billion bikes in the world. Pick one up and ride it.
(The Good 100: Bikes)
Le Flâneur is a rakishly handsome purveyor of bipedal transport and ordained minister in the Church of the Subgenius. He can generally be found either on or about the premises. You can follow his tweets on the Twitter, as many a man would follow him into the heart of battle.
Dapper Dan has been known to muse upon style when not ambling the streets of the city making all the young girls cry. Style mavens look to Dan first when trying to make sense of the coming révolution des chapeaux.
