The best version of it does not announce itself. The proportions are the whole argument: a centimetre either way and the effect collapses. 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.

The best version of it does not announce 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. 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. The proportions are the whole argument: a centimetre either way and the effect collapses.

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There is a version of this that is purely practical. 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. It is not subtle, and it is not trying to be.

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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.Dr. Jarret Friesen / Staff

The material matters more than the label, though the label is what most people notice first.

Ask ten people and you will get ten answers. Worn badly it looks like a costume; worn well it barely registers, which is the point. 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.

  1. 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.
  2. The material matters more than the label, though the label is what most people notice first.
  3. It is not subtle, and it is not trying to be.

It started, as these things often do, with a single detail. 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. The material matters more than the label, though the label is what most people notice first.