Saint Nicholas Presents and today's get-up.

As you might know, we Germans celebrate Nikolaus or Saint Nicholas Day on the 6th of December.

Many children (every age!) put a boot called Nikolaus-Stiefel (Nikolaus boot) outside the front door on the night of 5 December. 

St. Nicholas fills the boot with gifts and sweets overnight, and at the same time checks up on the children to see if they were good, polite and helpful the last year. If they were not, they will have a stick (Eine Rute) in their boots instead.

This Nikolaus, my Mum had a special present for me: A "Piccadilly Tea Time Hamper" from "The British Shop".

It contains

• "Shortbread Fingers" and "Belgian Chocolate Chunk Biscuits" by Walkers/Scottland
• "6 Tea Cakes" by Tunnock's
• "Chocolate Mints Crisps" by Bendicks
• "Twinings Tea Selection"
• a small bottle (0,375 l) Amontillado-Sherry "Los Arcos" by Emilio Lustau
• "After Dinner Mints" by Ross's of Edinburgh
• "Toffees" by Walker's Nonsuch
• 4 small jars of jam and Marmalade by Wilkin & Sons Ltd.

Here's today's get-up:

Herringbone Tweed Jacket, Tattersall shirt and merino sweater vest. This get-up begs for a tie!

Wheat-coloured corduroy trousers

Half-Brogues

Detail

Tweed and Tattersall.

Grey Herringbone Tweed

Navy sweater vest

Chinos and half-Brogues

Tattersall shirt

Burlington over the calf socks

Harris Tweed.

Another day. Another pair of corduroys.

Sleeve garters.

 

I own and use these garters for quite some time. But I never really wanted to show em off. I was surprised Beckham did. But so do I.

Trying to look British.

Vintage Harris Tweed jacket

Shetland sweater

Tattersall shirt

Corduroy trousers

Waxed leather boots

Time for Tweed and Tattersall

Herringbone Tweed and yellow corduroy.

Country look in the city.

Very wide lapel on my vintage Harris Tweed jacket.

Tattersall and Herringbone Tweed.

My new Tattersall shirt and a sweater.

Tattersall shirt by Charles Tyrwhitt.

Look at my new Tattersall shirt by Charles Tyrwhitt.

 You cannot image how hard it is to find a nice Tattersall shirt in Germany when you need 89 cm sleeve length.