LONDON, October 27, 2014 – Country Life magazine is publishing its first Gentleman’s Life supplement, following the success of its inaugural Gentleman of the Year Awards and its much-debated ‘Gentlemanly Commandments’*.

 

With a focus on British luxury goods, Country Life delivers its guide to a gentleman’s necessities and aspirational purchases, covering everything from fashion, classic cars and watches to fine food, wines and international property.

 

The issue’s agony uncle, Kit Hesketh-Harvey, solves social and sartorial dilemmas, including how to pronounce chorizo, eat canapés, and whether one ‘should go starkers in the gym changing room’.

 

For more direction on gentlemanly behaviour there is advice on writing proper thank you letters – which the magazine argues haven’t gone the way of the dodo. Meanwhile, Tom Parker Bowles urges readers to forget blow-torches and liquid nitrogen with his five never-fail recipes that every man should have up his sleeve.

 

Mark Hedges, editor of the weekly magazine, said: “Although all men have the Y chromosome in common, to be dubbed a gentleman by one’s peers is the ultimate accolade for the male of the species. I am delighted that this supplement will guide so many to that prize.”

 

Country Life’s Gentleman’s Life supplement is published with the issue on sale on October 29.

 

 

Notes to editors:

 

* The Gentlemanly Commandments

 

When launching the Gentleman of the Year awards in April, the magazine featured Country Life’s Gentlemanly Commandments – a gentleman will occasionally be drunk but never disorderly, he doesn’t flash his cash, and he makes love on his elbows. A gentlemen never tweets, puts products in his hair, drinks Malibu, wears fuchsia trousers, plants gladioli or wears lycra.

 

 

About Country Life magazine

 

Country Life, the quintessential English magazine, is undoubtedly one of the biggest and instantly recognisable brands in the UK today. It has a unique core mix of contemporary country-related editorial and top end property advertising. Editorially, the magazine comments in-depth on a wide variety of subjects, such as architecture, property, the arts, gardens and gardening, the countryside, schools and wildlife.

 

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Victoria Higham

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