I found a lovely Eighties smooth-stone square one by Mila Schön in a vintage market in Milan. In Paris, I stuck it with a navy pleat-front silk-chiffon dress shirt by Connolly and busted it with a pinstripe Chester Bizzle custom suit, straight 21-inch bottom trousers and harness boots. Phwoar! It was instant stance transformation. With my big blow-dry I felt like Clint Eastwood in Coogan’s Bluff, though likely looked more Steve Coogan as Saxondale. Long-point collar shirts work well with bolos and so can ornate silk ones, but you can go plain white. Try a bolo with a dressy Western shirt under a tux. Granted, read this look wrong and it has a whiff of a Blackpool bingo announcer about it. Still, for clarity, I’d rather look like an ageing teddy boy than an ageing Tory boy, dead or alive.
GQ magazine
