Perhaps you lads will tolerate a brief distraction from The-Style-Who-Is-Not-To-Be-Named-Trad.  Many of the British members seem to go nuts for American stuff.  For business clothes, this American likes the Square Mile Look, at least as an outsider sees it.  The key, to me, is a really loud, fat stripe.  Gangster stripes-plus by American standards.  I've had difficulty running this look to earth given my location and budget.  I've come very close with a variety of chalkstipes, vibrant pinstripes and pic-stripes, but not quite nailed it.  This AM a visit to my shop to get another suit fitted yielded gold, a Holland & Sherry navy fabric with HUGE, bright white stripes.  These suckers are real chalkstripes and like they were applied with a none-too-sharp piece of chalk, perhaps an eighth of an inch wide.  Now, I'm probably letting myself in for a little ribbing from my colleagues at the Bar here in The Sticks, but screw 'em.  This baby's coming home in a double-breasted do with an Azalea Pink lining for wear with all the checked shirts I can lay hands on and preposterously subdued ties.  Just for good measure, I ordered a couple of pairs of Pantherellas in scarlet.  Sure, it's all a bit naff.  Not fit for the country gent.  The sort of thing stockbrokers and lawyers and others of that ilk wear.  But then, I am a lawyer, an ambulatory ego, not Beau Brummel.  Let a head or two turn in the street.

Confess.  Who else has a thing for the almost (?) over-the-top City look?  Any of you TradIvists have a closet fetish for the bold stripe?