A collection of photographs in celebration of the vibrant and burgeoning red-trousered communities of London and elsewhere. Contributions gratefully received at lamfrt@gmail.com
From South Ken to Shoreditch, from Jermyn Street to Mare Street – these days anyone that’s anyone is wearing red trousers.
If you want your leg-coverings to let the world know that you’ve got a few quid and don’t care who knows it, or that you have some big ideas about what’s on at the ICA right now - or simply that you are completely insane (but in a mainly non-stabby way) - then you’d better get your wife or girlfriend to take those jeans and chinos down to the charity shop post-haste!
Because there’s only one type of trousers you’ll be wanting to wear, and that’s RED TROUSERS. In fact - if you can’t wear red trousers you’d be better off wearing NO TROUSERS AT ALL. That’s what I say.
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
The Bell, City of London
Well done to Anton for getting this fellow to pose for a snap! Pleasing to hear it was apparently the third time he'd been asked that day.
Sunday, 19 August 2012
Drinking trousers
Thank you to Simon H for this one. I haven't been told precisely what happened next, but I think we can make an educated guess.
Boycie from Only Fools and Horses!
Many thanks to Mary for this one - who assures me this really is the actor John Challis. (A quick google image search confirms this.)
Amsterdam cravat man
The book is Spaanse Vrouwen, Bewolkte Luchten (Spanish Women, Cloudy Skies) by Martin Gaite, in case anyone was wondering.
Saturday, 18 August 2012
Sunday, 12 August 2012
The King of Sweden
Talking of royalty, surely Princes William and Harry like to get the RTs out from time to time? Please everyone keep their cameras at the ready...
Andy Goode
Fraudster
You'd never think it to look at him.
Saturday, 11 August 2012
Primark!
Either the upper tiers are finally feeling the squeeze, or the plebs are developing a taste for red trousers.
Or this bloke simply took a wrong turn on Oxford Street.
Or perhaps he's one of those junkies who dresses up all posh to go thieving? Who knows.
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Chelsea Waitrose
Surbiton
See, this guy is definitely not posh: shaved bald head, ghoti beard, button cuffs, weird little silver bits on his shoes... no, no, no: definitely not posh. But he's no sort of hipster either. Nor, to be fair, does he look like a lunatic. So why is he wearing RTs? Because, ladies and gentlemen, he's "kind of a big deal".
Jasper Jones
Jasper is the landowner from the children's TV programme "Little Red Tractor". His is the Big Blue tractor we can see in the background there - which, one can safely assume, gets bested in each episode by the eponymous little red tractor owned by someone who doesn't wear red trousers and isn't described by Wikipedia as "materialistic and smug". Isn't kids TV great?
(Thank you to Andy S. for this spot.)
Notting hill gate
Not spectacular of course, but the white shoes are something. A beautiful and haunting sort of picture. What does his face look like? Does he even have a face? We'll never know.
Stairs RT
Perhaps it was deliberate, but I've never seen anyone dressed like a staircase before, so I thought I'd post it.