Me On Fashion

Now I love our Sherlockian couple more than most.

But you can take Benedict Cumberbatch and he will look great in just about anything.

But it is actually his oppo - Martin Freeman - who is always going on about clothes. He's a fashionista. He's an expert. But catch sight of him in the picture and it's always overplayed, overengineered, ungainly. It's fashion for fashion's sake. It doesn't look good on him. It's a look all right but it's just not him. It's not his. Fine actor though he is, he doesn't own it.

I have made a similar error myself when getting a shirt tailor-made. This is a great opportunity to stick an extra redundant button I have thought. Having pairs of buttons will make me look expensive and cool and an individual.

It doesn't. It makes you look like a prat who is trying to say something through the medium of extra button. And failing.

It's a bit pathetic.

Fashion is an overused excuse to cover how you wear yourself.

The reason Cumberbatch looks good in this because he wears the clothes. HE wears them.

The reason Martin Freeman fails, is because the clothes wear him.