Fashion (Non)Sense

Lileks on fashion trends:

Keep this in mind: Nearly every single piece of "Style" advice tendered in this section over the next year will be laughable by 2007. Has anyone apologized for the Great Poncho Revival? Guys in your 40s: Anyone get a message in 1985 saying "gentlemen, turn down your Izod collars; it is done."? Nah. They just moved along. We ached for closure, but no! That's why guys turned their baseball caps backward; it was our way of dealing with unresolved collar-positioning anxiety.

THEY NEVER APOLOGIZE. Right now, for example, flat-front pants are "in" for men, because three fashion editors in New York got together last summer over mangosteen-infused martinis in a SoHo bar made entirely of zinc, and realized that they were so over pleats. Hence, all American men must burn their wardrobe and buy confining flat-fronts that make them feel as though they are carrying an Etch-A-Sketch in the rear of their trousers.

My advice: Take no advice from someone who employs the word "bling." Even ironically.

He also has two good screeds here.