I saw a guy on the bus today. He was wearing a dress shirt but no tie. Both his slim jacket and pants were brown, I guess you could say reddish or orangey brown. Shoes were read, high-polished leather.
As I may have said before, I don't think the traditional suit and tie will fade into history until something replaces it as formal/business wear. Gargantuan John Fetterman gets away with hoodie and shorts on the Senate floor. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (RIP) favors a paramilitary look with fitted T-shirts. These aren't the future.
The look of the guy I saw on the bus might be. I've seen it on other smartphone-toting young professionals. Basically it ditches most traditional forms of adornment but requires color coordination between top and bottom. Of course it could also be a fad, and in a few years might just scream "2020s."
1 comment:
By your description it sounds as if the guy was dressed attractively, nice slim-line brown suit and all. Talking about men's fashion in clothing earlier we realized the big change in the way men (and women) dress came about with the advent of 'casual Fridays' which a fashion historian apparently described as "the most radical change in work fashion since the 70s, when women got the right to wear trousers in the office". Boy, those were the days.
Wearing a business suit nowadays is generally considered only necessary for politicians and professional men. From what we've noticed everybody else shows up in whatever happens to be handy and reasonably clean.
But fashion is what you were wondering about and somehow or other the current style of wearing jacket, matching trousers, shirt, tie, and sometimes a vest all began in Victorian times. Of course there have been variations over the years but the form continues to be recognizable. As for what the fashionable man of the future might wear it looks to me like men prefer sticking with tradition so it likely won't be a onesy or a zoot suit or god forbid a fitted t-shirt (RIP haha). The way things are going let's hope it's not ratskins and old plastic sacks.
Post a Comment