| In a few years' time, male teens ended up | | | | are looking not for what their fathers wear. They |
| changing the way society sees the men's suit: | | | | are instead after form-fitting jackets; shirts with |
| imbued with a conservative and corporate spirit. | | | | narrower dimensions and skinnier pants and ties. |
| Who would have imagined that teeners in their | | | | For all these, we certainly can lay the blame on |
| 20s would be the ones to develop a taste for | | | | Mr. Thom Browne. The fashion iconoclast is |
| blazers, sports jackets, and above all, luxury | | | | celebrated for bringing on as norms shrunken |
| men's suits? | | | | men's jackets and high-waisted pants that show |
| But why not? Apparently, marketing of luxury | | | | ankles. And we haven't even touched on his |
| men's wear has successfully reached teeners | | | | advice of tucking the knotted tie into the trousers |
| effectively, from the papers they read to the | | | | when wearing the short suits. |
| websites they visit. These gentlemen are most | | | | To top all of this, I read somewhere that when it |
| likely into college work or some new venture that | | | | comes to advertising men's wear, a suit will |
| favored rugged dot-com boom-era casual | | | | always be a reliable gentleman's suit of armor. |
| dressing. Things have changed though; these | | | | Young people are basically admitting that suits |
| young men picked up the fashion information and | | | | exude confidence responsibility, and trust, needed |
| have come to see no problem in dressing up and | | | | very much nowadays in the aftermath of |
| enjoying it. Blame David Beckham all you want, | | | | corporate scandals. |
| but to look good doesn't have to be a chore. If | | | | So indeed its time to shed the images of those |
| one wants to live up to this dress code, then it's | | | | golden bronze demigods clad in pristine three piece |
| not just counting cotton shirts and cute | | | | suits, and the other extreme of disheveled |
| unmatching socks as part of one's already-haves; | | | | models who are nowhere near selling suits on |
| one has to watch out for the lifestyle itself. | | | | magazine ads, where it not for the fact that the |
| Anyway, it must indeed have been the | | | | suit's logo declared so. Let's bring on the "real" |
| metrosexual revolution, wherein nobody gave a | | | | men who will show us that men's suits are suits |
| thought to guys shaving their legs, buying fashion | | | | not only meant for real men, but for youngsters |
| magazines or shopping for home decors. | | | | too, who have outgrown an all-jeans wardrobe |
| What's even more interesting is that the young | | | | and will risk things with skinny trousers. |