Every once in a while a film comes along that fundamentally changes the way men dress. In the 1950s it was Marlon Brando and The Wild One; in the 1960s, the David Bailey cool of Blowup; in the 1970s Ralph Lauren’s Great Gatsby dream. Two made their sartorial mark in the 1980s: Richard Gere in American Gigolo on the big screen, and Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews and Brideshead Revisited on the small. While those other great milestones have been left to stand, Brideshead has been – well, revisited, in a remake starring Ben Whishaw and Matthew Goode, directed by Julian Jarrold and opening on Friday. The question is whether it is possible for fashion to go to Oxbridge again.

For some of bespoke’s finest, the answer is an unequivocal yes. “When I was growing up I was very much taken by Brideshead Revisited,” says tailor Timothy Everest, who trained under Tommy Nutter. “It is interesting how every generation since goes back to that period in men’s dress and reassesses it for the present. Tommy Nutter, for example, was very turned on by the 1920s and 1930s. His look was rooted in nostalgia but he subverted it, as do we.”