voxsart: #Menswear Contrasts 1: Gandhi and Mountbatten, 1947. Lord Mountbatten in a suit by Norton & Sons, complete with a military (a.k.a., valet) crease in his sleeves, as still practiced by his protégé Prince Charles.  Gandhi is in something more modest, a dhoti made from cotton yarn that he had hand spun himself on a charkha.


aconversationoncool: Richard Burton, 1974.