I think the reason the menswear guy broke so many brains is that the instant someone puts on a suit jacket they think all sartorial rules and norms have been suspended
He's very normatively correct for a certain gentlemanly mid-century continental style but it's kinda like judging people's automotive tastes by how closely their choice resembles a 1956 Continental Mark II. Lovely aesthetic but most people were driving Fords & Plymouths
I think he's a self-aware geek for men's clothing, which is not how we're used to thinking about fashion, it's supposed to be a high status thing to care about (thus snob). But it's clearly its own subculture like punk music or scifi novels.
And when punk fans see someone listening to pop and sneer, we roll our eyes at them. We should do the same for menswearguy. Dress how you like, fuck off giving others shit for it
I have never seen him dunk on a normal person, only very famous people, usually right-wing chuds. And when he does he typically tries to tie it back to their own statements about fashion or masculinity
True for the first part. I don't have sympathy for the chuds, but it's a line of attack I still don't like. I don't think his adoring fans will learn to clock these fashion mistakes and then only see them in chuds.
Can you give an example of your last point? I am not following but am intrigued.
Yeah that's a good bit. But when we are dunking on nearly every world leader for pant length and calling attention to it, I really that makes the world a (very slightly) worse place:
twitter.com/dieworkwear/...
I would be more interested in the question if it didn't have judgement attached to it. As it currently stands, don't know, don't care, and if your hobby is judging the pant lengths of others, I am sorry that's a bad hobby. (Unless your hobby is hemming pants yourself I guess)
