“Surviving
is keeping your eyes open” writes U.A. Fanthorpe in ‘Portraits of Tudor
Statesmen’. “The literal painter set it down… mail, ruff, bands, beard,
anything, to hide/ The violently vulnerable neck.” The language of ties
inflects our age. Politician’s straight lines may second as a handy noose. Mind
your peace and cues. Open collars declare their Adam’s apple’s free to do what
it likes, though appear too casual and they’ll get it in the neck. Dinner ties,
anonymous as movie stars. Plunging necklines equal abandonment of the concept
of suggestion. Tattoos, a dead giveaway for independent thinking or loose
living.
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