At the moment my suits are too small to contain me. And this isn’t because I’ve grown too big for them. As someone who doesn’t like being fiddled around with by tailors, I buy suits off the peg and today’s fashion decrees that suits bought off the peg should look too small – narrow in the leg, mean-spirited around the waist, pulled tight with a single straining button around the middle, in order to give the impression that the man wearing it is famished.
Howard Jacobson, author of The Finkler Question among other novels, harrumphs about modern suit cuts and what they say about the men who wear them. We must do something about this immediately!
–Pete