Mens’ Fashion
Oh I despair with modern society!
Now before you cast me as an old fuddy duddy please let me explain. A few years back I was in the USA over Christmas and New Year. We were invited out to a New Year’s Ball to a very, and I mean VERY swanky Golf and Country Club. Knowing about this in advance I had packed in my tuxedo amongst my beach shorts!
Come the evening of the event we were all very excited getting ready, the girls all in their finery looking extremely glamorous and the men equally well dressed. So off we go to the ball. Arriving we soon realised that whilst we weren’t the only ones, we were certainly in the minority of the few people who had bothered to make the effort and dressed for the occasion. Most were what we call now as smart casual. Whilst it didn’t spoil the evening it certainly reduced the glamour and excitement of the event.
I think it was on the same trip, we went on what was my first, and last, cruise. We were invited to the ‘Captain’s Dinner’ and just like the New Year’s Eve we were busy dressing ourselves pre-dinner in all our finery. Only to arrive with what seemed to be a few thousand middle aged, overweight Americans with their Hawaii beach shirts and shorts plus wives in goodness knows what attire! No disrespect to our American cousins but they never have dressed particularly well, you only have to look at what they wear to play or watch golf, but as always what starts over in the US inevitably comes to this country.
Now look at us? Where I used to wear my dinner suit maybe a dozen times a year, now it is probably once a year. If I go out to a Restaurant in the Wirral or wherever I never dress up. What used to be an ‘event’ is no longer so. What used to be glamorous and exciting is now mundane. I blame this on our society’s relaxed dress attitude.
I am not blaming women’s fashion, you can look across any Wirral Restaurant and you will see many very attractive women beautifully dressed but look at the men, how they are dressed! Most look like they have come straight from a football match and can’t be bothered how they look. I have never understood a shirt not being tucked in…other than the fat bloke disguising his beer belly…the same one that shaves off all his remaining hair to hide his baldness. But we’re not fooled so why should we copy? As for the fashion of showing men’s undergarments, I ask you? Equally I do not want women doing an impression of my local builder with the most disgusting of all lingerie, the thong!
Come on girls show us the way, put your foot down and make us men bring back glamour.
by Phil Hendon
Categorised as: Guest Post, Men's Fashion