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The Gallery: Five Reasons To Think Safari
Words by Mr Chris Wallace
18 August 2020
Maybe it is an overreaction, in response to the housebound torpor in which we’ve spent much of 2020, but when we consider travelling now, we seem to think less about the picture-postcard poolside vacation than about adventure. And even if it is all we can manage to just get off the couch for a Zoom call, let alone leave home, or leave town, we’d still love to wrap ourselves in the rugged romanticism of an explorer (we’ll fake it ‘til we make it, thank you) – and nothing makes us feel more adventurous‚ even if we’re only digging our way to the back of the pantry, than a safari shirt. These are not classic safari shirts, but hey, in the modern era you don’t need to be wearing a khaki two-pocket shirt to have an adventure. Here are a few of our favourites.
01.
The garment-dyed field jacket
02.
The effortless chore jacket
If you catch the sun just right, wearing, say, a Breton shirt, white linen trousers, with this light cotton field jacket by Orlebar Brown with a pair of espadrilles, you will suddenly find yourself strolling an esplanade in the south of France. I don’t know how it works; it just does.
04.
The camo-print jacket
For running any and all ops in the concrete jungle, a little purposefully incongruous desert camouflage in the form of this ripstop jacket by RRL will ensure that you definitely do not go unnoticed.
05.
The king of the overshirts
Even if you only make it as far as the mailbox in this lush suede number from Dunhill, you are unquestionably out-of-office, practically off the grid, documenting some giant fauna, or filing your foreign correspondence from some far-flung outpost. Maybe even a little suntanned, and certainly well beyond the reach of bills, worries, regrets.
