Here, Gentry’s editors pay tribute to a casual shirt designed as a “conversation piece… especially for the outdoor chef”. This “barbecue shirt” from Damon Creations was fashioned from cotton and finished to look “exactly like freshly wiped oilcloth”. Droll but dignified, its grill-themed pattern includes a set of Cubist-inspired cooking tools (turner, tongs, grill brush and so on) and a soft-Surrealist trout.
Whether you call them ‘camp shirts’, ‘aloha shirts’ or even ‘bowling shirts’, these colourful, comfortable, short-sleeve button-ups are perfect for the National Day holiday party
In the department of obscure anniversaries, it has been 60 years since the demise of Gentry, an excellent magazine that used to inform men about clothes, sports, food, wine, chess openings and Oldsmobile coupés with white-walled tyres. I strongly recommend The Gentry Man: A Guide for the Civilized Male (Harper Design), a softcover book assembling its greatest hits, and this summer, I especially suggest turning to page 98, given the epidemic riots of colour bursting across men’s torsos on evenings and weekends.
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