Althouse: Young men are getting dressed up — in summer!

June 20, 2015

Young men are getting dressed up — in summer! — "It's amazing!"

30 comments:

Ryan said...: But they are still wearing shorts with those bow tie and straw hats...; 6/20/15, 10:46 AM
Curious George said...: Amazing? I would say FABULOUS!; 6/20/15, 10:55 AM
The Bergall said...: The best thing I like about visiting NYC is leaving...............where normality seems to escape the lexicon.; 6/20/15, 11:04 AM
dbp said...: "Young men, from 25 to 50..." I don't think of 50 as young. The collage of pictures may or may not be representative of what is on the scene but lots of the pictures were of men I would consider middle-aged--like me btw at 52.; 6/20/15, 11:13 AM
bleh said...: Governors Island? God that place has become an annoying draw.; 6/20/15, 11:14 AM
clint said...: Shorts and a bow tie? Okay, I'll grant our hostess that sometimes shorts make men look like little boys.

I'm still not going to wear sweatpants at the gym in the summer.; 6/20/15, 11:23 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "But they are still wearing shorts with those bow tie and straw hats..."

Only one is. Mostly, they are quite enclosed, unusually enclosed, in fabric. It looks too hot.; 6/20/15, 11:35 AM
Scott said...: It's steampunk cosplay.

Last week I saw a guy in what looked like a nice Italian suit, but with the slacks hemmed halfway up his calves. Geez. If you want people to stare at you, just wear a dress and be done with it.; 6/20/15, 12:09 PM
kzookitty said...: More annoying newyorksexuals. Or is it nysexuals? I can't keep up.

kzookitty; 6/20/15, 12:17 PM
Eric the Fruit Bat said...: Brooks Brothers keeps spamming me with email with pictures of fake father-and-son combos playing dress up together.

Times have changed.; 6/20/15, 12:32 PM
khesanh0802 said...: This only shows that straight men aren't the only ones with bad taste in clothes.; 6/20/15, 1:12 PM
Big Mike said...: Pants that expose the entire ankle are not an improvement on shorts.; 6/20/15, 1:16 PM
David said...: Worse than shorts.; 6/20/15, 1:20 PM
MacMacConnell said...: It's sad that so many men dress like boys. It's interesting that so many have bought in to the business casual, which was nothing more than a marketing ploy by Levi Strauss to save their corporation by pushing Dockers.

http://www.ivy-style.com/golden-years-rebel-without-a-suit.html; 6/20/15, 2:15 PM
BobJustBob said...: Reminds me of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiRPBCiJg2c; 6/20/15, 2:28 PM
Bill said...: I happened to be looking at this just a few minutes ago. Impossible to keep both sets of images in my noggin at once.; 6/20/15, 3:18 PM
Paddy O said...: Round these parts, we have the dapper days at Disneyland.; 6/20/15, 3:34 PM
walter said...: Economists resent the appropriation of the bow tie.; 6/20/15, 4:39 PM
Unknown said...: Gay men, not men.

Nothing wrong with that.; 6/20/15, 4:54 PM
Bayoneteer said...: NYC dandies swaggering about like horny peacocks. No fashion-sense, bad fashion, and no sense, (given the weather).; 6/20/15, 5:12 PM
Beldar said...: Every man in the right side of that composite photo looks ridiculous.

I say that without waiver of my standing position in opposition to yours about men wearing shorts, though, Prof. Althouse: No one but a Pajama Boy or NYT male fashion model would wear a bow tie (acceptable) and sports coat (acceptable) with shorts (not remotely acceptable in this combination, even in Texas weather).; 6/20/15, 5:17 PM
Beldar said...: Put another way: If it's hot enough to justify wearing shorts -- as it is where I live at this very moment! -- then it's certainly more than hot enough to justify not wearing a coat or tie. And I'm in favor of broad and generously flexible standards regarding when and where it's hot enough to justify not wearing a coat or tie. (I say this as one obliged to wear coat and tie in court regularly, but that's air-conditioned, and I shed them when I leave it.); 6/20/15, 5:20 PM
Lewis Wetzel said...: So Peewee Herman is now a fashion icon?; 6/20/15, 6:44 PM
Known Unknown said...: still needs a shorts tag.; 6/20/15, 8:06 PM
Anonymous said...: So Raj from the second season of The Apprentice has the last laugh. (A decade ago...) Or maybe Anthony Blanche from Brideshead Revisited.; 6/20/15, 8:51 PM
kcom said...: Goofy, not classy.; 6/20/15, 9:15 PM
Eric said...: The Times reaches its apex of comic schizophrenia when it flogs for the fashion industry.; 6/21/15, 6:02 AM
Biff said...: I posit that men wearing suits without wearing socks are even greater affronts to civilization than are men in shorts.; 6/21/15, 10:16 AM
Biff said...: ...though the last photo in the video was darned adorable.; 6/21/15, 10:20 AM
jaed said...: ... no "Men in Shorts" tag love for this post?; 6/21/15, 10:21 AM