The journey of a king
Good foot, good eye? So it seems… Treated since February for a cancer whose exact nature has not been revealed, Charles III continues, despite the incessant speculation of the English press, carrying out his representational work, as if nothing had happened. almost. At the end of October, the King of England was on an official visit to Australia and the islands of Samoa. Returning to the United Kingdom, he was found at his royal residence of Sandringham House, in the county of Norfolk, in the west of the country, with his hand in his pocket and a smile on his lips, on his way to a religious service.
brown show
For your weekend Rural, the king opted for a brown coat and fawn-colored shoes, paying homage to one of the great principles of classic masculine elegance. Because if the formula “There are no dark-skinned people in the city,” “no brown in town” is ridiculously rigorous, it is based on the simple idea that elegance also consists of harmoniously integrating into the environment. Specifically, in the city it is advisable to favor urban colors, such as gray or black. In the countryside, it is preferable to choose natural, green or brown tones and their shades.
camel life
Let’s focus on this royal coat. Long, crossed and cut in the camel hair, a wool collected by shearing or combing from the large camelids of the desert and semi-arid belt of Africa and Central Asia, the garment in question is what is called, in technical jargon, a ulsterette. Why this unflattering name? Simply because it takes up the codes of the Victorian era in Ulster, then a province of Ireland, but it is made of a lighter material and, above all, without the imposing cape that traditionally rests on the shoulders. You know everything.
Soft to leather
The king’s shoes offer us the opportunity for a healthy lexical point, while fog reigns over the subject. They are made from suede calfskin, a leather that is used on its flesh side, the inner surface of the skin. Is it the same as nubuck? No, nubuck refers to leather whose grain side, the outer surface, has been finely sanded. that he in view of ? A bit, this Anglo-Saxon term designates both calf suede and nubuck. And what about the term “ante”? It is simply inappropriate, because it has been a long time since deer were hunted to make shoes.
flowers and weapons
Finally, it is impossible not to mention this red poppy in the king’s buttonhole. Widely used by the British in the run-up to 11 November, to pay tribute to the memory of soldiers who died during the First World War, this poppy is inspired by a poem written by the Canadian military doctor John McCrae in 1915. It evokes the battlefields of northern France covered in poppies after the fighting: “In the fields of Flanders the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row after row. » In 1918, poppies began to be sold to help veterans.
