 The writer and critic A. N. Wilson , who observed in 2008 that Eden was " easily the best @-@ looking individual , of either sex , to occupy [ the ] office [ of Prime Minister ] in the twentieth century " , noted also that he was " the only male Prime Minister known to have varnished his fingernails " . However , there is little objective evidence that Eden was unduly vain about his clothes ; he merely dressed well . As for his Homburg , which Deedes noted that he wore at an angle , his official biographer Sir Robert Rhodes James , wrote that " to him it was just a hat " . 
