The front page of the WSJ "Personal Journal" has a substantial article on how pleats in trousers are showing up on the "runways" again, and seems to speculate that pleated trousers will creep back to being "in fashion" in for the mass market, after plain front trousers have slowly gained larger and larger shares of that market the paast decade or longer.
Suits me, so to speak. It will mean that some of my clothes, inlcuding suits, will appear less out of date, at least to the non-hip eye! Also, I assume this is the end of th Thom Brown high water, still wearing my high school graduation look, that I sure could never wear and never got used to! Maybe we will have "high water" pleated pants. That would be a break with the past.
I was surprised by the numbers in the article as to how high a percentage of pants from Brooks Brothers and Dockers were still sold with pleats and how very high the percentage was just two years ago.
Now everyone who is surprised that now when non-pleated trousers are dominant that the clothing folks are switching to pleats, raise their hands. <g>
Suits me, so to speak. It will mean that some of my clothes, inlcuding suits, will appear less out of date, at least to the non-hip eye! Also, I assume this is the end of th Thom Brown high water, still wearing my high school graduation look, that I sure could never wear and never got used to! Maybe we will have "high water" pleated pants. That would be a break with the past.
I was surprised by the numbers in the article as to how high a percentage of pants from Brooks Brothers and Dockers were still sold with pleats and how very high the percentage was just two years ago.
Now everyone who is surprised that now when non-pleated trousers are dominant that the clothing folks are switching to pleats, raise their hands. <g>
