Haircut, shave, a few salad lunches = fixed.

He does look pretty dreadful, especially when compared to someone like P.J. O'Rourke who is four years his senior.

What's wrong, well his face and you probably can't do much about that. The beard is no doubt hiding a double chin and shaving his head likely isn't going to work for him. He looks like the type who stinks of stale tobacco and urine. Does he smoke a pipe? Well he should do. Too ruddy by far.

Likely he's making the best of the bad hand he was given as regards looks.

As this is a sartorial forum, then posting topics on celebrities is valid, although I class Mr Bryson as an author of some note, rather than a celebrity.

He looks a bit shifty to me, he doesn't correlate with his writing style at all. I feel a bit sorry for him as he seems to have as Steve Wright use to say, the perfect face for radio. Other authors actually do look like they match their writing style, I mentioned one above and Terry Pratchett was one and also Tom Wolfe, amongst a great many others. As Bryson has said himself on his beard: " I think it's because I'd be frightened to see what my chin looked like. The beard was grown when I was at university and also working at the evening paper at Des Moines, Iowa, and had to be at the office at 5.30 every morning, having been up quite late drinking the night before. One of the casualties of that was grooming altogether. I've never rediscovered any of those skills."

I hope I look better than that when I am 65, but I am taking my ageing sartorial tips from Duke Ellington and I plan to be commanding respect through authority and presence. But who knows, it can be done, the old timers had it abundance, style that is. The OAPs on the bone of their arses look is more prominent now, I don't think it's more poverty, just that people don't care. Bryson is not an example of this, just someone who isn't going to look great in anything. It's the hand that genetics gave you.

I have no idea what Bryon's position is on Brexit and I don't really care. He is a travelogue writer who focuses on Britain as his topic, his writing is on par with Michael Palin's adventures, not as witty as Clive James, and hardly the realm of astute political commentary. I pay his version of the UK as much as I do Woody Allen's London films, quite entertaining but idealised. Meanwhile, life goes on.

Beestonplace didn't state his position on Bill Bryson's image, as a Hermes tie wearer himself, he may have actually quite liked it.

My principal hobby is exploring music, mainly jazz. I do weight train and bike extensively at weekends weather permitting, I like good wine and calvados and find food is enhanced with decent wine. How many years will this add or subtract to my life, who knows? But I am going to get all the kicks and entertainment out of life before my number is called. Enjoy!

As the referendum result was almost 50/50, and many of those who voted to leave then expressed regret afterwards, I don't think it is realistic to say that the UK did want to leave the EU.

Personally I think, in or out of the EU, the UK is fucked.

Last edited by Yuca (2016-11-02 04:54:45)

yuca, stop trolling. please re-read my posts. i was simply surprisef that BB (whose books i love to read on long train journeys) with his geography teacher scruffiness and his sunday times mail order moleskin trousers with elastic waist/mephisto comfy shoes style would ever be seen in an hermes tie.

There is a future for the UK, but the doomsayers cannot see it!

Brexit was but a move in the ongoing main event which is the battle for the heart, soul, political and spiritual direction and order of Europe. A great and terrible experiment is underway, the UK shares many of the same issues as continental Europe, but it's break-out delivers hope and now is a thorn in the side of the post-democratic order.

The Remainers strike me as romantic, but spoilt idealists with a touch of the fanatic: they have a vision of Europe of a cosy enterprise of a welfare state from the cradle to the grave, a socialist utopia like the NHS on steroids. Of course, it doesn't actually exist. As an example, here in The Netherlands the health service is private and it is second only to the USA in terms of cost. Spain which has massive unemployment the dole money is limited in months in relation to how much you have paid in and when the benefit duration runs out you get nothing from the state, you either find work, live on family or friends handouts, charity or you will starve and to top it all you are no longer recorded in official statistics as unemployed.

Yet to hear the Brit Remainers talk we are all living high on the hog in Europe in a socialist Paradise!

Interesting picture of Mr Bryson.

He looks a little dishevelled maybe, but approachable. Maybe, his wife bought him the tie as a gift and he thought he'd put it on for the picture?

I wouldn't consider him stylish, but he doesn't claim to be, so it wouldn't be fair IMO to judge him a failure.

Can you be too well dressed? Does being too well dressed have an effect on approachability? Is this because of the clothes or the effect being well dressed has on your demeanour...?



















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Remind me again why this thread needs to be polluted with mediocre political blabla?