A man approaching his mid-40s feels sartorially adrift and uncertain about how to dress. He experiments with contemporary wide trousers but receives blunt feedback that the style does not suit him. He notes that keeping up with every new trend grows harder in one’s 40s, yet he resists abandoning contemporary style entirely. He worries about appearing as a belated adopter or embarrassing himself by chasing every incoming trend. He searches for a compromise — a comfortable, middle-ground look that accommodates physical changes and reduces sartorial anxiety. A satirical social-video clip captures the exhaustion of pretending to be someone else.
When I modelled them in the shop for my wife, she reacted instantly. I couldn't pull them off, she said. You're not an art or fashion person, was the implication. She was right; her advice tends to be sound. As a man, when you push into your 40s it becomes harder to keep up with every new trend and perhaps there comes a point at which maybe you shouldn't. But you might not want to totally give up either.
You don't want to seem like the old guy finally catching up with a new trend just as the last helicopter pulls out of Saigon. Equally it can be mortifying attempting to grab on to every incoming style. And so like Clinton or Blair, you scramble desperately for a sartorial third way. Or something that sits with relative comfort as the waistline expands the middle ground. It always comes with a nagging fear that it doesn't look quite right.
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