Rodney Trotter was many things, but a trendsetter he was not. ‘New York, Paris, Peckham’ may have adorned the Trotters’ Reliant Regal, but inadvertently kidnapping a wine warehouse employee in Calais was probably the closest poor Rodders ever came to Paris Fashion Week.

The tattered camouflage jacket, an oversized trench coat with his name inscribed with biro, cheap market stall suits – it was not a wardrobe that suggested a sartorial icon who would inspire future generations.

Or so we thought.

Some twentysomething years since it fleetingly graced his scalp in an Only Fools and Horses episode, the abominable ‘rat-tail’ hairstyle made infamous by Del Boy’s younger brother is having something of a comeback.