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