Donald Clarke: North Korea is right. Denim has become degenerate
One could hardly imagine a less threatening figure than that Yorkshire-born shrub wrangler. True, around the millennial years, he accrued a reputation for including “sexy” scenes in his popular novels, but nobody seriously suggested he was any latter-day Marquis de Sade. With his sensible jumpers and unthreatening gilets, Titchmarsh remains the personification of television’s midafternoon cosy tendency.
“It’s taken me to reach the age of 74 to be regarded in the same sort of breath as Elvis Presley, Tom Jones, Rod Stewart,” he commented. “I’ve never seen myself as a dangerous subversive imperialist – I’m generally regarded as rather cosy and pretty harmless, so actually it’s given me a bit of street cred.”The Easter Quiz: 50 questions on sport, celebrity, geography and moreWere we 107 we might suggest last week’s news confirms the completion of a cycle for the blue jean.
It took a long time for them to emerge from the workplace and on to the legs of movie stars. By the early 1940s, something called “western chic” was beginning to attract those celebrities, but you wouldn’t catch Joan Crawford wearing jeans anywhere other than on a ranch . It was the generation of Marlon Brando and James Dean that really launched the garment as a youth cult.
On reflection, perhaps the North Koreans are on to something. Titchmarsh and his trousers really are embodiments of imperial decadence. Pixelate away.TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch, beginning tonight
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