The gilet is perfect for time-poor gazillionaires. You can bike, store a tie and avoid phone thieves
An elegant neighbour, who lives with a husband and three sons, is ruthless about disposing of what she calls clutter. She came to our cottage, holding out – with a look of slight irritation on her face – a quilted navy gilet with orange trim. She offered it to my husband, asserting that, although it was brand-new, she wanted to get rid of it because ‘there are just too many gilets hanging up in our hall’. It seemed remarkably generous of her. Later we realised the gilet was ‘noisy’ – there was an audible sound of rustling when Giles moved around in it. When a taste-broking friend arrived in the cottage, she assessed that the gilet was ‘bordering on fine – it’s 100-per-cent nylon, and the bright orange trim is not ideal, but it could be worse. At least it’s not totally high-vis – then you would just look like...
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