DUKE OF WINDSOR

Perhaps most importantly, he introduced to the world the crafty maverick that was Frederick Scholte – a Dutch-born tailor we now know as the inventor of the Savile Row drape cut.

With its soft, generous chest and waspish waist, each jacket gave a majestically masculine stature to an otherwise physically unimpressive man: a man who, nevertheless, wore every last suit with appropriate devil- (or Queen Mother-) maycare aplomb.

Besides, what could be more stylish than lounging about in the Caribbean as governor of the Bahamas, wearing a lightweight wool suit with a smoking pipe in hand?