What do people call all the bits that end up in
your pockets after a night out? Or the loose
ends that you find in your Barbour jacket pocket
two months after Glastonbury? Festival junk? Soiree
paraphernalia? It’s that sticky, icky odd collection
of invaluables you’d also find at the bottom of your
manbag (yes, we still use the term manbag here at
House Rules; it’s perfectly acceptable because we
invented the damn term) if only you’d bother to
empty it. You know what we mean: two or three £1.99
Bic lighters, a bottle-opener or two (if you use one as
a key fob, divorce yourself), endless coins in a variety
of currencies, half a broken cigarette you ponced off
the bouncer as you were leaving and a single piece
of Extra (Ice White) chewing gum with hairs and
biscuit crumbs stuck all over it. Wouldn’t it be great
if someone started making accessories for all your
night-out clutter? Well, now the supremely talented
Charlotte Stockdale and her Chaos label have gone
and done it, turning the humdrum – lighter cases and
bottle-openers, chains and key rings – into the utterly
desirable. A cigarette lighter never looked so fancy; it’s
almost worth taking up the habit for... PhotographsAllstar Pictures; Rozette Rago/New York Times/Redux/Eyevineparaphernalia*Lanyard, £135. Bottle top
charm, £65. Lighter
holder, £150. All by
Chaos. shop.chaos.club*Because WHERE ELSE willyou keep that BIC LIGHTER?Story by Jonathan Heaf Photograph by David Lineton09-19HRGodMerch.indd 106 09/07/2019 13:44
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