Lawless Gentlemen

SUITS

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans

Both business and menswear have cycles, and sometimes the two coincide.  

There was a recent minor media kerfuffle when Goldman Sachs, the most prestigious bank on Wall Street, announced that it, too, was going business casual, calling for employees to exercise their “personal judgment” about when suits and ties might be called for. GQ noted that, despite the casualization of most Wall Street banks, popular imagination still dressed bankers in showy suits, thanks to fictional, cautionary caricatures Gordon Gekko and Patrick Bateman.  Caricatures whose cautions generations of thrusting young men have ignored, molding themselves in the images of these reprobates.  

Calcio Fiorentino

Rough Terrain