Step one. Clothing. Check out the looks at Ralph Lauren, Hackett and Crew clothing to name a few. You want to look smart/casual, and try mixing in a bit of tweed as mentioned in one of my earlier posts. If you are on a budget, TK max is a brilliant place to pick up branded clothing, and Marks and Spencer for example offer good quality clothing cheaper because it doesn’t have a branded logo on it. Mix and match, trousers for example can be bought from anywhere as it hard to brand them. The country/town look is good. ‘An affordable wardrobe’(http://anaffordablewardrobe.blogspot.com/) is a brilliant blog about looking the part on the cheap.
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Step two. Accessories. A lot can be learnt by looking at a man’s accessories. For a start brown is better than black when it comes to leather goods. A gold ring with some sort of crest, usually warn on the pinkie will stand out well and a watch should be well chosen. I could write a whole blog about watches and probably will so for now I will leave it to your discretion. But something that looks smart. Don’t be without a watch. Buying used can save you money. The first watch shown below is a £4,000 Breitling the next watch is a £100 Rotary.
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Step three. Cars. This bit really depends on your budget. Massive savings can be made by buying a used car and slapping a private plate on it. On a recent top gear episode Jeremy bought a 2002 Mercedes cl500 costing £100k new for just £7.5k (it did however have a few faults). I quite like Range Rovers in traditional colours such as green and dark blue, definitely don’t buy it in white or you’ll look like Wayne Rooney. Check out http://www.romansofstalbans.co.uk/ for some used super cars. Land Rover Discoverys and Defenders are also avenues to explore.
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Step four. Activities. Take up shooting, hunting, yachting, Rowing, Polo… anything that a member of the Royal family might be seen to do. Not all of them will cost you an arm and a leg, although shooting might do in every sense of the meaning…
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Step five. Dog. Get yourself a dog; it has to be a Labrador/Retriever, a Spaniel, Great Dane, or possibly some kind of big hound. Then call it something posh… Oliver, Wills, Remington or something like that. Then take it for walks in your Barbour wax jacket.
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Step six. Get yourself a title. Bribe a member of Her Majesty’s Government into putting you on the honours list to become a Sir or Dame. Pretend you know a lot about something and become a member of the House of Lords. Buy yourself a ‘Lord of the Manor of’ title or Scottish Laird title (the only titles you can actually buy, contrary to what others try and tell you on the internet). Or become friends with a member of an Arab Royal family and see if he will make you some kind of sheikh. Or you could pretend, but I can’t imagine you’ll get very far with that. You also can call yourself Esq. (esquire) but that’s quite common these days.
Step seven. Learn the lingo. Watch every episode of Jeeves and Wooster, and say words like ‘what ho’, ‘ruddy hell’ and ‘rather’!
Step eight. Going out. Go out to wherever the Celebes have been seen and get sloshed on champers! Alternatively throw some money around at your local club, use a bit of lingo and the girls will be seeing diamonds. Use terms such as gazeboed. Word of caution, tweed can be quite hot when dancing so maybe just stick to a shirt, a light blazer at most.
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