Building sites all over Britain will never look the same again. The last of the open-weave string vests beloved of labourers, Rab C Nesbitt and Ricky Tomlinson of the Royle Family are about to vanish.

EAGLE-eyed viewers of Sky Atlantic may have noticed a strange anomoly during recent ad breaks. A clip for cult HBO drama, Girls, shows the lead character Hannah Horvath, played by the brilliant Lena ...

A winner has been declared in the battle of the string vests between pot-bellied boozer Rab C. Nesbitt and ripped rock star ...

String vests keep you warm because they trap a layer of air between your skin and your shirt. A bit like double glazing. Alan Moore, Hong Kong My father always wore string vests, and said they kept ...

The string vest's reputation as the least sexy and most annoying of garments is undeserved – it really is an undercover war hero. A Ministry of Supply study from 1956, among documents just released by ...

National Archives have revealed the army tested an array of string vests to help soldiers in the heat of Suez. National Archives have revealed the army tested an array of string vests to help soldiers ...

Building sites all over Britain will never look the same again. The last of the open-weave string vests beloved of labourers, Rab C Nesbitt and Ricky Tomlinson of the Royle Family are about to vanish.