Tommy was being sold, about fifteen years ago, in the once quite high-end shop my Dad used for basics.  They obviously thought it quite 'cutting edge' at a time when I was busy trying to track down Troy Guild.  Ebay, so a different ball game of course.  Frankly, I'd choose RL any day of the week.  RL shirts were forever turning up at a fiver a time in Oxfam etc. so I would wear them at school in warm weather, going into M&S lambswool once it turned chilly.  Everything was thrifted.  Then, going to work at a posher school, I began wearing Brooks suits.  Eyebrows were raised.

It was certainly to do with 'origins' I learned later about TH / RL sad to say.