Line of Duty's Martin Compston dresses his baby son in waistcoats, according to his co-star on the show Vicky McClure.
The actor is well-known for wearing the dapper garments as Steve Arnott in the cop drama.
And after his first child was born last year, his co-stars Vicky McClure and Adrian Dunbar bought his son a waistcoat so they could match.
Vicky told the Daily Star : “Martin has already got plenty of waistcoats, so he doesn’t need any more!
“But when Martin had his baby, we did buy the baby a waistcoat.
“When we film Line Of Duty together, we tend to shoot up until Christmas so we always get wrap party presents for each other too and they’re always very thoughtful.”
Martin has admitted his character always wears them because of his ego.
He said: “The waistcoats are partly because he thinks he’s Sherlock Holmes, one of the great detectives, and partly because he’s the overdressed p***k at work, having all the office affairs.”
Sales of waistcoats at John Lewis have soared due to viewers wanting to look like Martin's Line Of Duty character.
The department store chain told in October how the garments have been flying off the shelves, the Daily Record reports.
Prior to series six being broadcast this year, waistcoat sales at John Lewis had plummeted by three-quarters, according to a consumer trends report.
But there was a 114 per cent increase in demand for the garment between May and August.
In its 2021 Shop, Live, Look report, John Lewis said: “As the sixth series of Line of Duty reached its crescendo, you could forget ‘H’ – it was all about ‘W’. Waistcoats.
“Sales of waistcoats rose 114 per cent between May and August as Line of Duty fever swept the country.
“The nattily-dressed DS Arnott was to blame. We know the series was behind this trend: prior to it starting, waistcoat sales were tracking down by 75 per cent.”
The report added: “We binge-watched our way through hours of fantastic TV over lockdown. With shop windows boarded up or left empty for much of the last year, our TV screens temporarily took their place: they became our shop windows into interesting fashion and lifestyle trends.”
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