I take a certain generational pride in how clever David Beckham has turned out to be.
20 years ago, the middle-aged, public school press gang took it as read that he was as thick as mince.
But he wasn't.
He is also generationally typical in that, unlike many of the lot before, he wears black tie when it says "black tie", and he makes no attempt to dress like his teenage sons.
These things set a tone.
Those of us who are now on the cusp of middle age, or who have recently entered it, dress accordingly because we expect to be expected to act accordingly.
We are entirely comfortable with that.
We are entirely comfortable with that.
You have been quite rude about him in the past, not for being thick but for wearing "a skirt in public and his wife's knickers in private".
ReplyDeleteOh, that was never malicious. And he doesn't wear the sarong, at least, these days.
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