why must certain public school boy stars

feel the need to deny true origins with garish sartorial choices more befitting of American pop singers and worse? Messrs Cumberbatch and Stevens are presently leading offenders (Stevens the most ludicrous), though we must remain hopeful that they will in time come to see the folly of it all. Morale was at least briefly raised by the sight of Mr Redmayne turning up for his big London premiere immaculately attired, not least courtesy of a delightfully tailored frock coat. Such a welcome spectacle took one back to happier days, when the wellbred Englishman sported his traditional feathers without fear of censure from class warriors.