Springtime for Plaid

A nattily dressed friend and fellow Lambist tipped me to Sir Sean Connery's annual springtime fashion charity event in New York, Dressed to Kilt. Various designers, actors, musicians, models—and a few Olympians—joined to walk the Connery runway in sundry outfits, ranging widely in style, from dandy to gypsy, but each incorporating a yard or two of plaid, which, Sir Sean somehow thinks, is excellent to wear year-round, even (or especially) in the warmth of Spring.

Seasons aside, my friend was reminded of several books when looking at the slideshow of Dressed to Kilt. Here is one he thought of:

Here, the Olympian Shani Davis (swining his arms like a windmill, though he is not even outside) with a Penguin edition of Dubliners, nicely echoing his own bizarre movement. I only wish Shani had worn a hat like those in the painting. A wasted opportunity. If he wishes to wear a book that doesn't reminder onlookers that he is missing his topper, he would do well to carry either the below oatmeal-colored edition of A Portrait of a Young Man decorated with little band-aids of tape (to remind him that he should heal his look with a hat)—or, if it is Christmastide, this red-rimmed issue of Time.