Everyone’s a whore, Grace. We just sell different parts of ourselves," Tommy has an acumen for the business like no other. So does Michael. War veterans, both fought for their country like valiant comrade-in-arms. Their selfless service to the nation opened a new path of acceptance in the eyes of law. For Michael, it was when the cops twitch before hitting him and for Tommy, it came across in season three when Winston Churchill strikes a direct deal with the Shelbys. Usually buttoned upright to the top and with its rounded off collar, the club collar shirt is a popular choice in current fashion. Shelby can be caught wearing the shirt as a single tone piece, quite often layered with a waistcoat or on its own, detailed with a duotone contrast colour scheme; the main part of the shirt sometimes being decorated with stripes. He tends to wear this shirt in scenes that are a little more casual, more of day to day attire. A crisp shirt can look amazing paired with the right suit or even tailored trousers but Tommy makes sure to switch it up and try’s out many looks with this one staple item. The sign for W. Northridge and Son Builders seen in the exterior of the Shelby Co. office is a tribute to the production designer’s father, a builder by trade. Image credit: Nicole Northridge As we met Mosley for the first time this series, he was fine-tuning the podium lighting for his fascist rally. The British Union of Fascists leader was now joined at the hip with his very own Lady Macbeth: future wife Diana Mitford (Amber Anderson), styling herself as “Oswald’s most recent and last ever mistress”.

This isn’t the first time Tommy’s hallucinated Grace since she was accidentally shot dead by a Changretta family bullet intended for him. In series three, Tommy had sex with Russian aristocrat Tatiana Petrovna. During the act, she performed a little Siberian magic, choking him so that he would see her as if she were Grace. Before the credits rolled, Ruby had a worrying relapse. Her drawings looked disturbed and she heard voices coming from the chimney – except it wasn’t Santa. “The grey man is coming for me and daddy,” she told a terrified Lizzie. Is a Gypsy curse at play? Is she possessed by the spirit of Aunt Polly (Helen McCrory)? Did last week’s “green-eyed man” represent Oswald Mosley (Sam Claflin), the ghost of Tommy’s Prussian foe or envious cousin Michael (Finn Cole)? More practically, was it tuberculosis? After all, Ruby was feverish and coughing up blood. Arthur’s reluctance to embrace change and modernity is reflected in his home. Despite having a new house for series five, fans will spot the same crucifixes, photos and pictures that he’s had on show for years. “He’s not about moving forward,” says Mead. “He still wants to hold onto the Shelbys as they were.” There’s a “family tree of guns” says Mead, a hierarchy ensuring that Tommy always carried the weapon with the most authority compared to the rest of the Shelbys.The budget designer eyewear brand behind Peaky Blinders' Tommy Shelby's iconic season six glasses has opened a gorgeous boutique in Manchester. IOLLA was founded in Scotland, but has now made its way to the UK's most fashionable city (not that we're biased or anything). A real swan was also filmed but later cut from the episode four scene in which Tommy stands on the bridge over the canal contemplating suicide, and has a vision of The January coal barge bearing the half-buried corpse of his dead wife Grace. “We had a swan who swam under the bridge for real with an animal wrangler and then the barge came under with Grace in it. There’s a little clip that’s missing,” says production designer Nicole Northridge. The positioning of the Shelby men’s portraits in the company boardroom is significant as a visual demonstration of Tommy’s power over, and in series five, distance from, Arthur and Michael. The white striped shirt that Tommy Shelby features in multiple times throughout the show has become a staple piece in many men’s wardrobes, this season especially. The shirt has been an iconic piece in men and women’s fashion throughout the ages and is highly unlikely to never go out of style. Effortlessly paired with almost any trousers, this look becomes an individual and adapted outfit altered to your preference. The striped shirt may be versatile but require immaculate pairing up to create your look. Here are a few examples of how Thomas Shelby wore this style in the show.

The most characteristic shirt that Tommy Shelby wears on the show is the club collar shirt. The collar became popular in the first few decades of the twentieth century but has recently gained popularity after the TV show, Mad Men and now, Peaky Blinders. Both, Tommy and Michael are bosses in their own right. They do have a killer streak but they'd rather keep their hands clean and pass the job to someone else. If the list of coincidences were not enough, here's another strange tragedy in both their lives. They lose their loved ones in a revenge plot meant for them. In 'The Godfather,' a bomb blast meant for Michael kills Apollonia while Grace is shot by a bullet meant for Tommy. Whilst Tommy Shelby’s exact glasses are not available to buy, following huge customer demand IOLLA designed a similar, retro style frame, meaning that fans of the show can replicate Tommy’s look for themselves in time for the final season with the classic ‘ MacDonald’ frames. The petite, statement making frames bring Peaky Blinders’ vintage style to life. Fans can also visit one of IOLLA’s showrooms to learn about the design process in more detail, and take a closer look at some early prototypes.After Grace’s death, Tommy took the sapphire to gypsy Madame Boswell, who told him that the sapphire was indeed cursed – exactly what he needed to hear to salve his own conscience (Boswell was rewarded for this knowledge with the expensive jewel, so may well have been prepared to tell Tommy it was made of cheese if that’s what he wanted to hear). When Grace appeared with the stone this series though, she said “It wasn’t the blue stone, Tommy, it was you,” as the sapphire turned to blood streaming from the gunshot wound in her chest. Happy or sad? Twice this series, Tommy has also seen Grace re-enact a key scene from their series one courtship, when she was working undercover for Inspector Campbell to gather intelligence on the Shelby family in Campbell’s search for a crate of stolen guns. After his drunken meeting with Jessie Eden at The Garrison in episode three, he saw Grace asking “Happy or sad, Tommy?”, then again at the beginning of episode four.

While the other characters take opium and cocaine from plain bottles, Polly’s are always ornately decorated with silver carvings and stoppers. “You go up a stage for Polly,” says Mead, “it’s always that bit more decorative and beautiful”. The club collar is extremely versatile with just a slight change in the collar of a shirt makes it exchangeable in any situation you would wear a shirt. From weddings to business meetings and shows an eye for detail and a fore fashion mentality. Bad Santa fell off the sleigh again. Errant enforcer Arthur (Paul Anderson) got high on the Shelbys’ supply and was found in an alleyway with a needle hanging out of his arm. Just say no, kids. On Tommy’s desk at his stately home is a golden eagle inkstand flanked by two golden lions, each selected, explains set decorator Jonnie Mead, to represent Tommy’s leadership and power. “He’s being challenged by everyone, by the family and those outside of the family who he fears want to take his crown, so consequently he wants these markers that say ‘I am in charge, I’m the boss. While these things stay on his desk, he is the guy you do not challenge.’ ‘…an act of love’The key to getting Tommy Shelby suit and look is making sure your suit is tailored perfectly to you. His suits are always well fitted and show attention in the way he dresses and how particular he is, in the way he carries himself including the Thomas Shebly hat. Leaders of their clan, neither of them are the eldest in the family. In 'The Godfather,' Michael's elder brother Fredo is a forgotten face and in 'Peaky Blinders,' Arthur unrelentingly fails to exude command and needs Tommy's assistance in every decision. Both, Tommy and Michael are manipulative, smart, belligerent and know how to pawn off alliances to reach their far-fetched goals. Thomas Shelby and Michael Corleone are both manipulative, smart, canny and know how to pawn off alliances to reach their far-fetched goals. Cillian [Murphy] likes a busy desk because he likes to work with props and he always likes to be doing something,” says Mead. “He’ll always be smoking, obviously, but he’ll also always be reading something or touching something or putting something away and under all of it you will find books.” ‘Nowhere to escape from his own mind’ Stefan Hunter, Founder of IOLLA said: “The culmination of a huge amount of hard work and collaboration, it’s been a joy to see such an iconic character wear a pair of IOLLA frames. When we were approached in the summer of 2018, we couldn’t have imagined the journey we would go on with the production and it’s really incredible to have our homegrown business be part of Peaky Blinders history. We can’t wait to tune into the new series to see how things will end for the famous Tommy Shelby!”