Colm O'Regan: It's back — the simple combination of a shirt, with a T-shirt inside it

"It’s a reminder of the passage of time. Like finding out that the young people you didn’t understand are themselves baffled by the generation that come after them."

Comedian and Irish Examiner columnist Colm O'Regan pictured in Cork. Picture Denis Minihane.

“Go on, wear it, it’s fashionable now,” says my wife.

“Fashionable?”