Iraqi Kurdistan may still be somewhat unfashionable for oil companies, as the wider region remains a hive of militant activity and as oil prices lag.
But a group of young Kurds from the autonomous region’s capital Erbil are determined to keep the oil patch’s best side out as they don their finest garbs to promote Kurdish culture.
Mr Erbil, a ‘gentleman club’ set up early last year, has swiftly attracted thousands of followers on social media, with a core group of 30 men holding regular meets where they dress in their finest attire, replete with waistcoats, chain watches and — that staple of hipster ‘cool’ — copious amounts of meticulously-tended facial hair.
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