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Just a few years ago, wearing trainers anywhere apart from the tennis court or gym was borderline sartorial blasphemy. Smarter bars and
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Rake Commends: Song of Myself
There are suits that you don and forget about, and then there are suits that, with every inadvertent reflection of yourself in a window,
Pedigree Chums: A History of Aristocratic Incest
”You can’t marry your first cousin,” cautions one of the characters in Neil Simon’s 1982 play Brighton Beach Memoirs. ”You get babies with

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