What fashion enthusiasts can learn from older, dapper gentlemen

By Ania Sadkowska, Lecturer in Fashion, Coventry University
Katherine Townsend, Reader in Fashion and Textile Crafts, Nottingham Trent University

We first met Martyn in 2013 when he was 54 and working as a professor at a UK university. He cut a sharp figure in a black two-piece suit, a bright red shirt with cufflinks, a matching tie and a pocket square. We were meeting to talk about fashionable mature men’s clothing habits.

We spent nearly two hours looking at some of Martyn’s most treasured fashion possessions and chatting about his interest in clothing and style. It’s not very often…

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