I relished a recent article in The New York Times about the shift in men's fashion awareness, written by Guy Trebay. For me it was a thrill to read that, "At the very least, there has been a course correction. A generation raised on the insult-to-the-eyes that was casual Fridays has suddenly discovered a novel new uniform: the suit."
Trebay's writing is hilarious and clever ("the-insult-to-the-eyes")!!! I also appreciated this phrase: "if you’ll forgive the use of a lint-covered term from the cultural sock drawer." And I loved the following sentence, not only for his take on the average man's fashion sense today, but because his writing is wonderfully descriptive: "Thus the frumpy Dockers and the men’s version of mom jeans and the oversize shirts billowing like jibs have been bagged up and shipped to Goodwill."
Somehow I had hitherto been unfamiliar with the term "saggers." This word refers to one of the biggest fashion eyesores ever: baggy jeans pulled down very low, revealing the wearer's boxer shorts. If Trebay is correct, and more men really are moving toward a desire to wear clothes that fit well and are attractive, perhaps this term will soon be obsolete. Hallelujah!
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