![]() ![]() In the decade since, designers have tossed out traditional tailoring and treated pinstripes like any other pattern. That made pinstripes ripe of reinvention. No one wanted an outfit that telegraphed your responsibility for the worst financial crisis in living memory. Until 2008, that is, when the bankers destroyed everyone else’s life savings and demand for power suits collapsed as quickly as Lehman Brothers. For anyone who didn’t judge someone’s worth only by the size of their pay package, they were too gauche for words. In other words, they were perfect for finance’s alpha male bastions of bad taste, who adopted them in the 1980s as a sartorial dick swing, amplified by a double-breast cut and scarlet braces. The elan went and pinstripes became try-hard plumage. Then suddenly, by anyone who wanted to be considered glamorous and womanising, even if they worked in insurance. Pinstripes were worn by glamorous, womanising men. Movie stars like Clark Gable, eager to cultivate an outlaw aesthetic, followed suit. The Brits had worn pinstripes only on their trousers, but in the US, gangsters went for whole suits, a boldly patterned middle finger to the pursuing, funereal feds. But after they were adopted by the Chicago Cubs baseball team in 1907, then stolen (and made more famous) by their rivals, the New York Yankees, they took on a more maverick air.
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