{"id":1232,"date":"2009-06-22T21:26:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T20:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickonedwards.co.uk\/diary\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2009-06-22T21:28:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T20:28:31","slug":"unknown-pleasures-the-varicose-remix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/unknown-pleasures-the-varicose-remix\/","title":{"rendered":"Unknown Pleasures: The Varicose Remix"},"content":{"rendered":"

To Cad & The Dandy<\/a> in Hanover Square for a second tailored suit: this time for summer wear. Mohair, two button, light navy blue: their recommendation as an alternative to linen. The trouble with linen suits is their tendency to look utterly creased and grubby within minutes. Which I don’t mind so much, but I’m curious about the mohair argument and as a known-suit fancier I think I should own one.<\/p>\n

C&D were featured in an article on the summer suit debate in City AM<\/em>, which a kind colleague on the night shift had put aside for me. The sentiment ‘I saw this and thought of you’ is responsible for about 90% of my wardrobe, and indeed my library.<\/p>\n

==<\/p>\n

At the Whittington Hospital’s Imaging Department the other day for an ultrasound on my left leg. A decade after the removal of a large varicose vein, it’s come back to haunt me once more. Dad is apologetic about this, as it’s his family’s hereditary condition. I tell him not to feel bad, that it’s a small price to pay for the privilege of being his son. Being English, I can’t let this statement hover for too long and quickly add, ‘And thanks for the full head of hair.’<\/p>\n

So here I am again, back at the Whittington a decade later. I stand on a footstool in my underwear while a lady engineer applies the gel and the plastic thing on a wire and insists I look at the screen. I can’t make out what she’s referring to, and the only comment that springs to mind is ‘Isn’t there a Joy Division sleeve that looks like this?’<\/p>\n

She says it’s good news: the new vein is operable after all.<\/p>\n

‘You’ll be able to wear shorts again!’ she beams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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