In the article Fashion puts men in a tight spot with pants that keep shrinking by Robin Givhan, she talks about how mens fashion is in a tight spot because mens pants keep shrinking. I picked this article because this week I’m looking at bottoms and so it works perfectly. In the article she talks about how men’s trousers are now “tailored and shorter, tighter and shrunken, too tight and too short”. She then asks Pitbull a question “exactly how are you breathing in those high waisted white pants?” The article then goes on and talks about how suits are now available in narrow, flat fronted trousers and fall straight drown without a break, and sometimes cropped to reveal the ankles. Givhan then goes on and talks about how these suits are “particularly noticeable on red-carpet celebrities whose suits and tuxedos tend to be custom tailored to the last millimeter” if designed by Tom Ford. Justin Timberlake, Colin Firth or Bradley Cooper are common celebrities that wear these suits. Givhan then explains how Cooper caused a media fuss because he wore “distractingly” tight tuxedo pants to the White House state dinner and Cooper had to explain that the “crazy-town tight” trouser resulted from having packed on pounds for a film role and how it was a fashion faux pas, not a fashion statement. Then Tim Gunn a fashion expert then stats “A slim-fitting suit should skim the body, not hug it”. “It’s not intended to be a wet suit!”. According to Givhan “
on the average man, the popular cut when done right can most accurately be described as lean and its preference of this style crosses ethnicities and economics and is embraced by 20-something, as well as men in their 50s”. Then Givhan has Brain Coats a stylist and GQ contributing editor say a few words on tapered pants and he says “I think no mater what, a guy will look good in tapered pants”.
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