PPL Instructors wearing collar and tie

[Blackshift]

Hmmm....difficult choice.....

Clip on : appallingly working-class

Real Tie : appallingly trying-not-to-be-working-class

Here's an idea - turn up in a 15 year old Volvo estate in crumpled brown cords, scuffed brown shoes and a slightly frayed sports jacket over a cardigan almost worn through at the elbows. Then you can look appallingly actually-I-don't-give-a-f*ck-what-u-think upper-class.

Personally, I like the open-necked shirt or top button undone and tie pulled loose approach which goes with a practical its-easier-to-move-my-head-to-maintain-a-good-lookout attitude. If you have to wear a tie, you can always pull it tight and straighten it up a bit to welcome the punters through the door.

Don't trust stuffed shirt dandies.

Despite the British cinema's postwar propaganda campaign to the contrary, statistically it was "appallingly working-class" NCO's in Hurricanes, not Officers in Spitfires with MG's and girlfreinds called Daphne, wot won the Battle of Britain.

You probably couldn't take them anywhere though!