Our Top 5 Pocket Squares of the last year.

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Hi, I’m Leah from Rampley & Co and today we’re going to be giving you a countdown of our Top 5 Best Selling Pocket Squares of the last year.
At number five, we have our Portrait of Yada Gorosaemon Suketake. This pocket square depicts a samurai of the same name, and was made by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. He is represented fighting, although no other samurai is depicted in the image. Samurais were not only fighters, but also intellectuals, poets, or philosophers and this style of art belongs to the Ukiyo-e genre, a style that emerged in Japan in the 17th to 19th centuries. The subjects of Ukiyo-e were wide, but included female figures, landscapes, and sumo wrestlers, and were often inspired by legends.
This particular pocket square is hugely versatile, primarily featuring muted blues, greys and creams. The limited amount of red gives you a spot of colour to work with, without becoming the dominant colour.
At number four, we have The Kiss by Gustav Klimt. The Kiss was painted between 1907 and 1908 and was first displayed in Vienna in 1908. It depicts the couple kissing and they’re positioned in front of a plain gold background in order to draw your attention to them. Known for his patterns and his use of gold leaves, Klimt painted the man with a crown of vines on his head, while the woman wears flowers in her hair, her eyes closed. Some say that Klimt’s partner, Emilie Flöge, modelled for the painting with the artist himself. Despite being criticised for some of his work, which was judged as too intimate, The Kiss was well received, and the Austrian government bought it before the artist even had the chance to finish it.
The dominant gold colours here work best with a navy jacket and require you to either go for a very plain, dark tie, or to pick out a little gold detail in the tie. A full yellow or gold tie would feel far too intense as a combination and overly dominate the outfit.
Onto our third placed pocket square, and this time we see our Kingfisher design taking centre stage. Our Kingfisher Silk Pocket Square features a central drawing by William John Swainson, a 19th century British artist, naturalist and ornithologist, and is often best remembered for the quality of his zoological illustrations.
He was also the first illustrator and naturalist to adopt lithography with the monochrome lithographic prints in his books being hand coloured, and it was the use of this approach along with his natural talent at illustration that led to his fame.
The design allows you to wear it in a number of ways and achieve contrasting looks by switching between folds. The white base with blue and orange tones allows it to pair beautifully with a navy jacket and a range of ties.
At number two on the list, we have the stunning Wine Regions of France pocket square. This beautiful Fine Drinking map of the principle wine regions of France was made by Mary Holdsworth circa 1950. It was issued by the houses of Ayala Champagne, Croizet Brandy and Rocher Liqueurs and sold by The International Wine Library, booksellers to the wine and spirit trade in Montreal, Canada. It is a very unusual and highly decorative map.
We particularly like this pocket square with either a dark navy or grey jacket as the white and yellow tones provide a nice contrast and subtle pop of colour. In a puff fold you can use the different colours representing the regions for an added dash of colour.
And this brings us to our best-selling pocket square of the last year, the absolutely stunning Scotland Forever!
Scotland Forever! is an 1881 oil painting by Lady Butler (also known as Elizabeth Thompson), an artist that specialised in painting battle and military scenes. It portrays the charge of the Royal Scots Greys at the Battle of Waterloo, and is named after the battle cry of the soldiers, who were shouting “Now, my boys, Scotland forever!” as they attacked the enemy. This painting is one of the most famous images of that historic battle. It was exhibited at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly the same year it was painted and donated a few years later to Leeds Art Gallery.
This pocket square perfectly complements a navy jacket with the subtle variations of red and orange tones as well as the desaturated blue sky able to be displayed depending not the fold. It’s also an exceptionally interesting story to tell for anyone asking you to pull out the square to show them!

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