Gary Lineker is too buttoned up to be a gent

 
19 June 2013

A button minefield for men everywhere yesterday. First we had the open-necked buffoonery of the G8 summit, then TV football god Gary Lineker attended Ascot with the bottom button of his waistcoat — horrors! — done up. This is a definite no-no, as every self-respecting sartorial gent knows.

The faux pas was followed by GQ editor Dylan Jones and ex-British Fashion Council chairman Harold Tillman going to great lengths at a West End dinner to show that they have “working” cuffs on their jackets — both elected to undo the first two buttons of four.

That’s what we call showing off.

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