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As we all know, Baronet Sir Oswald Ernald Mosely launched a recruitment campaign based around his work clobber of choice, the no-nonsense black shirt. Originally this was intended as a cheap, recognisable uniform - we presume members of the club were allowed to wear what they pleased waist-down. Mosley's "blackshirts" became a noticable presence in London's means streets and a fashion look was spawned which continues to this day, in the collections of hipper-than-thou designers like Calvin Klein and Gianni Versace.
But did you know that Mosley modelled the first black shirts himself for publicity shots? In initial sessions his poses are political and stiff; three months in and the photgrapher's influence over his style had noticeably impacted on him, leading to innovative poses and shapes which became the blueprint for the male catalogue model right up to the 1990s.The Baron was briefly known as "The Body"; indeed, at one point his political aspirations were put on hold - and nearly derailed - as he became hot property on the catwalks of Milan, Paris and Frankfurt.
Baronet Sir Oswald Ernald "The Body" Mosley - strange but true.