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I also feel like wearing suits. Now that society doesn’t expect a man to wear one it seems a far more attractive attire. CHOOSING to dress makes a man even more attractive. How not to get bored with a suit? Reinvent sounds like an incongruous term when referring to something so classic, and classicism is what makes the suit such an attractive dress choice, but being inventive about how you wear your suit is the way to go. Wear it naturally, wear it with panache or if the issue is being more trend-savvy, wear it with boldly striped socks in this season’s colour palette.

Might be the year coming to a close that prompts a need for change, but I think I’ll be suiting up in the new one. 

Global infection certainly isn’t a new concept. I like the word viral having been adopted as the descriptive noun of the internet age. Throughout our history viral infections have purged the human population, decimating the weak and, often, the unlucky and although horrible to contemplate in their ruthlessness the plagues invigorated the survivors who threw themselves at life with renewed zest applying their creativity and intellect to improve the human condition. Our genetically coded social behaviour was simultaneously our downfall and our binding agent. We are all the same.

The young boys of Sapa Village in Northern Vietnam sport Justin Bieber hairstyles, skinny jeans and shiny PU Dolce & Gabbana jackets staight from nearby China. Plimsoles abound and there’s no shortage of shiny chromed trims and accessories. They display a propensity for flashiness and the ubiquitous Vietnamese mode of transport, the scooter, gives them an air of numerous generations of young men from far-flung corners of the planet, not unlike Marlon Brando’s “The Wild One” and Sting’s Quadraphenia.

The message remains unchanged, here’s to hoping it goes viral.

I know there’s little pity nowadays for a computer illiterate member of the ANALOGUE generation, but appreciate that I’m taking the bull by the horns and launching myself into the BLOGOSPHERE to see what the view is from out there. Here I come Major Tom………….