Monday, December 16, 2019

I'm Beginning to Suspect GQ Magazine Is Just Trolling Us

I admit I saw some upside to their October cover story, related here in "The New Masculinity: Huh, I Suppose It's Time To Update My Wardrobe": 

Some time ago (Sept. 23, 2017, 5:01 PM PDT) I mentioned that because of threatened budget cuts we would have to either combine our politics, sports, national security and fashion coverage or forsake them entirely. This led to some choices that may have puzzled long suffering readers (see below) and led to results that were not entirely satisfactory for anyone.
Well today, for said long-suffering readers I am skipping a meeting in an attempt to bypass the censors and reverting to straight fashion, to bring this to your attention:

Times change and we must change with them....
The thinking being, should one swerve off a mountain road in the dead of winter, it might be a good thing to be wearing a high visibility sleeping bag.
This latest however:
Who even needs one of those?
Seriously, even if you buy-in to Australia's gift to the fashion world:

European Bankers on Top of The League Tables For Fashion Sense
....the shorts suit (now available at Barney's):

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the codpiece just seems redundant.