How Trump killed the business suit

[bond_and_beyond]

Interesting from the Economist:

https://www.1843magazine.com/style/last ... r-the-suit

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[Mark Seitelman]

The article doesn't say much. Mr. Trump may be guilty of many things, but he has not killed the suit.

I think that casual dress (bordering on wearing underclothes in public) and the lessening of propriety, manners, and decorum, are the chief culprits for the decline of the suit. Gone are the days when men wore suits for Sunday in the park.

Mr. Trump urges "made in American" although his tie company made it ties in China. Mr. Trump is known to wear Brioni. However, the front door of his home is a mere hundred yards from the Oxxford Clothes store. He has yet to visit. Now is the time for him to make America great again and to buy some American quality!

[couch]

Gosh, Mark, somehow Trump's Brioni doesn't look much like Daniel Craig's Brioni (or any other examples I've seen). Michael must be right—it's all in how you wear (or mis-wear) it.

Maybe it's not a bad thing that he hasn't patronized (carefully chosen word, that) Oxxford yet . . . .

Cheers,
Couch

[HristoStefanov]

However, the front door of his home is a mere hundred yards from the Oxxford Clothes store. He has yet to visit. Now is the time for him to make America great again and to buy some American quality!

Oh, come on!

I don't care if a politician wears Chinese or American ties. A politician has to do his job well. All the rest does not really matter.
It makes also little sense that one buys American stuff just because it is American. The American way is - make a product which people wants to buy because they like it, not because it is American. If Oxxford can't wake my interest or the interest of Trump, it's their fault (or they have different target audience).

[pur_sang]

I don't care if a politician wears Chinese or American ties. A politician has to do his job well. All the rest does not really matter.
It makes also little sense that one buys American stuff just because it is American. The American way is - make a product which people wants to buy because they like it, not because it is American. If Oxxford can't wake my interest or the interest of Trump, it's their fault (or they have different target audience).

I have to agree. Patriotism as an ideal for consumption, for the lack of a better word, is rather stupid.

[Noble Savage]

A better analysis of his choices:

People tend to freeze their style at a point when they feel they are at their best. Perhaps it was the look that marked the honeymoon phase of a marriage, the most dazzling time in their professional life or their year of athletic greatness.

Trump is frozen in the 1980s, when people lived flashy, brash lives. Everything was big — the shoulder pads, the egos, the hair. Wealth wasn’t flowing from bold ideas but from Wall Street gambling, real estate bets and paper pushing. Trump is now what he was then. But what might have been great in the past looks hopelessly out of fashion today.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyl ... story.html

Donald Trump's choice of clothing on the trail echoes his campaign's theme: America was great once—probably sometime in the mid 1980s—but it's not any more, and I'm going to bring the old days back. Either by accident or by design, the Republican nominee dresses like a Reagan-era Wall Street mogul, and controversies over his menswear line have put an unusual focus on fashion in the election.

http://time.com/4439204/donald-trump-fashion/

According to The Telgraph, however, it may just be so-old-it-is-new, and therefore in fashion again:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/peop ... n-fashion/

[bond_and_beyond]

And he keeps his tie together with tape. Such elegance..

http://www.esquire.com/style/news/a5117 ... s-his-tie/

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