For years the answer seemed obvious. What began as a working garment turned into a wardrobe fixture, and the reasons say more about how people dress now than about the garment itself. Its return has less to do with nostalgia than with a genuine shift in how people want to get dressed.

Ask ten people and you will get ten answers. The material matters more than the label, though the label is what most people notice first. What began as a working garment turned into a wardrobe fixture, and the reasons say more about how people dress now than about the garment itself. What began as a working garment turned into a wardrobe fixture, and the reasons say more about how people dress now than about the garment itself.

Restless Fragrance

There is a version of this that is purely practical. The details that survive are the ones that solved a problem in the first place. The proportions are the whole argument: a centimetre either way and the effect collapses. The material matters more than the label, though the label is what most people notice first.

Qui velit tempore iste et vitae
The market has caught up, and the result is a far better version at a far wider range of prices.Rolando Heller / Staff

Its return has less to do with nostalgia than with a genuine shift in how people want to get dressed.

It started, as these things often do, with a single detail. The market has caught up, and the result is a far better version at a far wider range of prices. Cut properly, it does the quiet work of making everything around it look considered. The details that survive are the ones that solved a problem in the first place. The details that survive are the ones that solved a problem in the first place.

  1. Its return has less to do with nostalgia than with a genuine shift in how people want to get dressed.
  2. Its return has less to do with nostalgia than with a genuine shift in how people want to get dressed.
  3. The details that survive are the ones that solved a problem in the first place.

For years the answer seemed obvious. Its return has less to do with nostalgia than with a genuine shift in how people want to get dressed. The material matters more than the label, though the label is what most people notice first.