10 June

The fashion writer Derek Guy makes a wonderful distinction between tailored clothes and designer clothes. For example he says the UK princes often wear designer suits, which fit badly and don’t look stylish. Their father the King wears tailored suits and looks stylish. Or look at Noel Coward in his tailored suit here, how fabulous it looks, compared to Harry. Designer clothes are more about status than functionality. Tailoring is entirely about functionality, which in turn creates great style. We’re awash in designer clothes and accessories today, because we’re a kidult culture. A culture where people are desperate to forge an identity for themselves, a status. That’s teenage life, but now all of adult life. Harry is now even a brand, rather than a Royal. That’s kidult culture.