A Child of the Jago's Aprons

I am a huge fan of this brand, no secret about it. They have a very seditious smell to ‘em, you almost feel like you would have to do some crime, petty crime no less, just to feel good about owning their apparel. It has a gritty, chimney-drenched quality which is swathed with high-grade quality fabric that would have slipped past the Byzantines for they would not be able to tell the texture from the the touch to the sight.

The description on their site is also very descriptive of this tendency for male clothing to be practical and flashy, although the latter term seems to be flexible on more than a cultural level. It maintains that the apron is an added attire to prevent certain criminals, the more creative ones might I add, from having an easy time from going into your pocket. When you consider that the male’s attire is normally the one with pockets and, this makes the apron the wall literally.

I find the apron, personally a very cool attire. It adds another level of attire that is easily suitable for both winter and summer and does a lot for the bottom part of menswear that is the one part that is difficult to change or break and also, tends to be the least flexible when it comes to patterns. The myriad patterns hearkens this to traditional European patterns with checks, patterns and stripes of all colours and range.

One other thing to note is not only are they good for layers and to add a dash of flash, they are bloody good to switch with formal and non-formal styles. Anyone worth his salt would do well to know how to wear a suit but imagine a salt-and-pepper pants with patches and a suit, slightly specked to give that cross between the dusty Wild West drunk the and sewage-stained plumber of Birmingham. If the plebeian look does not bode well for you because it is too Marxist, why not something more grand and elitist. The branding of A Child of the Jago has its own story with master tailors and the scissors symbol, suggesting something akin to the whole Freemason conspiracy and maybe it leans more on the upper-tier of society. If that’s the case, you would do very well indeed with a curved collar and a tailcoat that smells of the Celts vicious, siphoning fury. The apron would then be the icing on what would or should be a spectacular cake. Or just wear a t-shirt if you yield that way and go to a football match with matching tones.

This non-bifurcated garment may give some craven, lily-livered men jitters, but then these men have worse worries than wearing something that is both punk and Victorian crook at the same time, which by the way, is the most machismo thing to be. The fact is he is being emasculated in the face of women who are or have fought and are fighting for the right to be topless in public like their male counterparts and the right to wear brassieres or not. Being jittery over this just seems very unmanly and bloody silly.

When you consider the fact that fashion is to go forward and not look back, you fall in a trap just like the one where people ignore history and commit the same errors, although even highlighting this basic fact hardly does anything in my own opinion. The issue about menswear is that our most powerful epochs were in the past whereas for women, it could be argued their fashion has been on a constant revolutionary pendulum. That being said, it is only by looking back with delight and less of scorn do we start moving forward and this apron, sharing that square in both eras, is certainly the way to go for men, to wear whatever they want based on aesthetics as opposed to any fear, worthless in fact, of being seen as effete somehow. The only question I have is whether this would look good on its own with nothing underneath, or with stocking or leggings or knee-high socks.