スティーヴン・フライのインスタグラム(stephenfryactually) - 6月5日 13時25分

Back to jolly old Jermyn Street and the very English name Charles Tyrwhitt. “Tyrwhitt ... Tyrwhitt!” the call of a bird perhaps? No, in fact it’s pronounced “Tirrit” – the older British families like to spring traps for the unwary: see also Mainwaring, Cholmondeley, Marjoribanks and Featherstonehaugh, pronounced Mannering, Chumley, Marchbanks and Fanshawe respectively. And let’s not even start on Norfolk place names like Costessey and Happisburgh.

Charles Tyrwhitt, you might be forgiven for thinking, must be one of those venerable institutions like Turnbull and Asser or Hilditch and Key, founded when Queen Victoria sat securely on the throne, taxis were pulled by horses and – in Alan Bennett’s deathless phrase – you could buy three pennyworth of chips and still get change from sixpence.

Actually the firm was founded, out of a Bristol student room, as recently as 1986 by one Nicholas Wheeler (his middle names are Charles Tyrwhitt - I wonder if he’s related to the explorer/archaeologist Charles Francis Tyrwhitt-Drake?) who felt that he could make as good a shirt as anyone else. His venture was a huge success. Between them, he and his wife, Chrissie Rucker, founder of the White Company, are reckoned to be worth close to half a billion of your puny earth pounds. Lot of money in that white cotton, as James Caan nearly says in The Godfather.

@charlestyrwhitt’s core business remains the gentleman’s shirt and accompanying necktie, no question. But, as the website says “ We’ve expanded from just shirts and ties to suits, shoes, casualwear, and accessories; we’ve opened 45 stores worldwide; and grown from that single Bristol bedsit to now having 1,300 incredible people working for Charles Tyrwhitt around the world.” These two ties I offer up for your inspection today certainly attack the eye, don’t they? Bold and brassily confident, they can cheer a fellow up on a drab morning. That's the spyrwhitt.

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