Waistcoats Direct's Mr. UK Waistcoat in Tatler Magazine & Debutante Couture Convention - Le Bal de Crillon, Paris

Our Mr UK waistcoat is featured on Page 174 of the March edition of Tatler magazine. The editorial article is entitled Dangerous Liaisons. The photo location is Salon Marie-Antoinette, Place de la Concorde, Paris.

There you will find an amusing account of a deb ball in Paris. The prestigious Le Bal des Debutantes (more popularly known as The Crillon Ball) is a glitzy charity event where 24 gorgeous young ladies make their début, dressed in the finest couture gowns and flanked by handsome aristocratic cavaliers.

Mr UK Waistcoat worn by Richard Dennen with Lady Kitty Spencer at Salon Marie-Antoinette

Of the 24 debutants most attention was focused on Princess Diana’s niece Kitty Spencer, daughter of Earl Spencer. If you are looking for royalty with real glamour this is your girl. Beautiful, Royal + those Spencer genes, 19 years old, unattached… eligibility off the scale. Her début was like a sunbeam entering a tinsel factory. It was decided that the event wouldn’t be her Dad’s bag so he was left behind in Althorp.

The Tatler’s very own Richard Dennen was kind enough to modeled our waistcoat. His article shows off his wicked sense of humour, such as describing the deb scene where girls are ‘picked out like racehorses for their legs and breeding.’ The ladies were all ‘daughter of’ someone famous or aristocratic.

The press photos show Richard proudly flying the flag for Britain. His patriotic take on the event is one of national rivalries for the prize of press attention. Foreign debutants scratching at gilt doors to get into the coolest photoshoot.

Top totem on the USA team was Clint Eastwood’s daughter, Francesca. The British team played their ace in the form of the Hon. William Pelham as a suitable match for Miss Eastwood. The young aristocrat had to be extracted from his studies at Eton to literally ‘play’ for his country. We will have to kit out young William in our Mr. USA/UK waistcoat when he gets his invite to the Eastwood ranch in Carmel, California to further his ’special relationship’.

They say beauty comes from within ( within jars, tubes and bottles!) but at the Crillon Ball it is definitely on the the outside as well: a Shangri-la of competing beauties.

But by the end of the evening, peace and international entente was declared with the liberal flowing of champagne. It is well know that our best diplomats can’t function without champagne.

Richard Dennen & Lady Kitty Spencer at Le Bal de Crillon, Paris

Here’s the link to the ab fab that is Tatler magazine:
http://www.tatler.co.uk/