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Hello like many other men of my generation my my age, I've had what one might call an intermittent

encounter with clothing fashion. I do have a youthful memory of a Hardy-Amis suit that I bought back in my early 20s when the idea of designer clothes made solely for men seemed almost well revolutionary.

Then along came my passion for fry boots, calf length leather jobs with side zips and a slice of cold metal in the heel.

Then with a regular teaching salary in my back pocket I saved until I could afford my very first

Armani suit and I can see and I can feel it even now those slightly padded shoulders

the three button jackets the distinctive charcoal

charcoal grey colour and the way it slid over my hips. But now I grow old and it really

can't be too long and till with proof rock I wear the bottom of my trousers rolled.

Fortunately my intermittent involvement with anything that might count as fashion hasn't altogether prevented me from

recognizing my female partner's obsessions. Their passion, often not

economically realistic for designs by Mary Quant and Prada and

Ozzy Clark and Alexander McQueen a high fashion world which was

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