JIMMY Saville donned a suit for the first time in 30 years when he visited Golders Green last week.

Saville, famous for wearing garish tracksuits, was promoting friend Warren Gold’s tailors, Gold and Son, in Golders Green Road.

Dressed in a dapper black pin-striped suit, the ex-DJ said: “This is terrific — I daren’t look at myself in the mirror because I might be converted to wearing a whistle and flute.”

Saville’s relationship with the shop owner began in the swinging Sixties.

“In 1964 when Top of the Pops started, I used to visit Warren’s shop on Carnaby Street. He thought it was a terrific idea that I wear all this outrageous gear, because in those days it was outrageous.”

Friends for 47 years, Saville visited Mr Gold’s new shop on Thursday to advertise a promotion selling suits for £1.

“I’ve been meaning to come here to say hello to him — today’s the day, and he’s worked a flanker on me by making me climb into a suit.”

Chomping on a regulation cigar, Saville explained he is not a fan of formal wear.

“You wear a suit for weddings and funerals, and I don’t do either, because I reckon they’re both the same,” he said.

“I’m a single fella. To walk about like this, ladies might start to fancy you.

“No girl in her right mind would go out with a geezer in a tracksuit, so that suits me down to the ground.”

Out of his comfort zone, he concluded: “I shall now rush and put a tracksuit back on.”

The £1 promotion continues over Christmas — customers can buy one suit for £100, and get the second for £1. Mr Gold was quick to dismiss the credit crunch, and said: “Business is good at the moment because we’re selling suits for a pound.”

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