Shirt, shirt (ensemble)

Shirt with a dogtooth check pattern, part of an ensemble by Dean Rogers. During the 1970s, menswear retailer Dean Rogers had two shops in west London, one in Fulham Road and one in Beauchamp Place.
The donor, Peter Viti, was photographed wearing this shirt with matching shorts in East Hampton in New York State in 1972.
Peter Viti, was born in Bloomsbury in 1936. He attended the Central School of Arts and Crafts, then entered into a partnership making costumes and props. He eventually went into the family business of letting property. Viti calls himself ‘a bit of a dandy’. He purchased clothing from the boutiques which revolutionised men’s fashion in the 1960s. Viti recalls the London gay scene both before and after the legalisation of sex between consenting men in 1967, considering that things became a little easier for gay men as attitudes slowly changed.