Outrageous oldies

Ageing men should ignore dreary dress codes – but mustn't look like children's telly entertainers, advises Peter York

Nicky Haslam, contributor to The Oldie, has been an inspiration to us all for years. I mean years. When I started writing for Harpers &Queen, just as Anna Wintour was leaving it to take over America, Nicky came as a fringe benefit. We saw him everywhere, including on the Chelsea punk front lines. He was sublimely confident about his taste and never followed any of the rather tight-arsed dress-code do's and don'ts for the mature man, which I set out in these pages in 2023. Nicky thinks, like Osbert Lancaster's cartoon character, Lady Littlehampton, “If it's me, it's U”. So he wears all sorts of unlikely things. He's never aimed to fit in. Later, he even had a facelift – something my 2023 piece advised against as un-English. However, his…

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The Oldie (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025

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