Just seen you on the news, can't miss that jacket haha!
No sweatered John Major on a tank, no Maggie Thatcher in a flak jacket.
With feelings running high, the sight of a Network Rail hi-vis jacket beside a level crossing attracts the attention of a man who comes striding across a Suffolk beet field, brandishing an alarmingly large pair of secateurs.
Alexander Lapko, a senior specialist at the Nato liaison office in Kiev, wrote in October in the New York Times that his family had to spend $2,400 £1,6155) on a uniform, boots, gun sight, flak jacket and helmet for his brother, who was issued only a Kalashnikov assault rifle when he joined the army last year.
I have navy suits, navy blazers, a navy overcoat, a navy waxed jacket for colder weekends, a navy blouson for warmer weekends.
Easier is to go soft and T-shirty on top, which heads off the stout-matron effect you get with a jacket and makes you look relaxed in an "Oh, I wear surprising trends all the time" kind of way.
He has a red Black Diamond down jacket and brown Karrimor walking boots with a hole in the left boot.
It is unusual, though, to see a jacket toned down rather than sexed up in a books world where the biggest news of the week looks likely to be EL James's announcement that she'll be telling the story of a BDSM relationship from the man's point of view in Grey, and where even Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar has had the chick lit treatment.
"When we all turned up at a civic event at Manchester Town Hall to celebrate the double, Eric wandered in wearing a denim jacket instead of a blazer.
Despite occasionally acknowledging that some academics might be women, his comments betrayed his assumption that academics are male, for apparently their default uniform comprises trousers, a jacket, a shirt and a tie.
But that was while two ugly banks of seating for the Games were attached, which appeared like a boxy life jacket round an Olympic swimmer's midriff.
