Two friends in black tie

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Picture based on a photo of me (left) with MB, in Bristol.

Bristol, early twenties. My first black tie event. MB, back from a year in America, was already a veteran.

I’d never worn a dinner jacket – state school in central London introduced me to all kinds of exotic people, crime and drugs, artists and musicians, but no black tie. (No school uniform either.)

At university I found myself in a very different world. Black tie was strange to me.

MB seemed to carry it off with authority. He’d done this before.


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