"If the path of fashion follows its usual course, predictions for the very distant future might well include a further elevation of bomber jackets and work-trousers into conventional formal dress for both sexes alike, to produce a new standard adult costume in the practical androgynous mode that has been unnoticeably evolving from innocent infant wear.... In the fullness of time, the Senate floor may eventually have the same look we see at the museum or the coffee-shop or the ballgame, only smoothed out, toned down and clarified. Just as in the case of the lounge-suit, such a move would still not be an innovation in form, since the most basic designs for those work-jackets and work-trousers, just as for jeans and tee-shirts, have already been around for more than a century."
-Anne Hollander, Sex and Suits
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Once again, Beau Brummell is turning over in his grave, alas.
He's got to be rather rumpled from all that rolling these recent decades.
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