

The only passengers exempt from this rule are: In England, it is compulsory for anyone travelling by bus, train, ferry or plane to wear a face covering. Face coverings, such as masks or snoods, must also be worn in most public indoor settings in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Those who fail to do so can be hit with a fine of £200. As good a back, or rather under, handed compliment as we can recall.Wearing a face covering in shops and on public transport is now mandatory in England.

So fetishist, over a dozen models pinched theirs as they slinked out of the backstage. Snood, a word of Old English origin, typically means a headband, but in Burberry’s case it was a circular, macro plaid scarf, and became this collection’s fetish item. Especially, the well-applauded finale, backed up by U2’s wistful version of “Everlasting Love,” where all the models sauntered out in what looked like cashmere scarves, but were, as Bailey corrected journalists backstage, actually snoods. Nostalgia, a longing for past, can frequently lead to predictable fashion, but thanks to Bailey’s rich imagination, it inspired a tremendous wardrobe of great clobber. Especially when it came to the knits, a snappy supply of hefty cable sweaters, made in broken snow crystal patterns, cut trim, and overlong – so long their cuffs extended well beyond jackets. Bailey also played brilliantly with the house’s signature tartan, blowing it up into a macro plaid, and using it in some great men’s dress shirts, though, on closer inspection, the plaid was actually in a micro herring bone weave – subtle and craftily new.Īnd with fashion houses here bracing for a tough year at the cash register, this fresh and highly plausible collection contained just the sort of items to tempt a credit card out of a well-closed wallet.
#Burberry snood series
Throughout the hipster casting wore Road to Wigan Pier grandfather shirts with bibs, miniature Edwardian collars or arty, lawyer-like trims, in the best series of shirts we’ve seen on any Milan runway in many seasons. Take, for example, the pea-coat, cut with dandified wide lapels, finished at the back with hidden buttons and whipped together in wonderfully enormous takes on the plaid.

Inspired by the photography of Bill Brandt, and his images of frequently poor, yet intensely proud, British folk, the collection had lots of practical basics – sturdy pea-coats, chunky cable sweaters and grand father’s shirts, yet all given such novel twists as to render them thoroughly modern and impressively cool. That, at least, was the message at Burberry, in a wonderfully elegiac collection by designer Christopher Bailey, a nostalgic re-interpretation and posh updating of the pre-war English worker, seen through the eyes of the sophisticated urban gent of today. If the opening shows in the Italian men’s fall 2009 collections, which began Saturday in Milan, are any indications, then get ready for lean times, best spent hunkering down at home, with the longest trip of the day a descent to the wine cellar to quietly work your way through your better vintages. Godfrey Deeny January 18th, 2009 03:00 AM - Milan
