Actually, Boris, the photo is very interesting. This man is committing a
sartorial outrage. The Panama hat is correctly worn with flannels and a
blazer, or even with shorts, whilst a double-breasted pinstripe suit cries
out for a bowler.
The only explanation I can come up with is that he is a retired Australian
cricketer on the way to a funeral.
He's not a typical Londoner, that's for sure.
John
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 05:55:09 +0100, Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi!
I can't say as this photo does much for me. There's a guy in a suit
walking down the street. He's not doing anything, he's not involved
in a situation that's captured in the photo, there's no interesting
expression on his face. Quite honestly, I don't find much interesting
about him at all.
The street scene itself doesn't do much either, as (for one thing),
the man in the suit so predominates the frame that there's not much to
see of the street anyway.
Sorry, Boris, but I have to be honest...
I wouldn't ask anything else from you, Frank, or for anyone else on the
list.
I suppose that after living for 13 years in the country where man
wearing a proper suit is as unusual on the street as a walking elephant
I was a bit, how to put it, surprised...
Well, it is just a sketch but I thought of it as very quintessential of
London - people sitting by the street eating something, a strange (to
me) looking man in the suit walking past them, and the car and the
buildings...
I suppose you (and many others) witness the same dozen times a day... I
don't :-).... Speak of cultural differences...
Nonetheless, you may be right and I'd keep posting my London Sketches
for a while more...
Boris
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