Nobody expected it to last. Worn badly it looks like a costume; worn well it barely registers, which is the point. Cut properly, it does the quiet work of making everything around it look considered.

The appeal is harder to explain than it looks. 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 details that survive are the ones that solved a problem in the first place. 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.

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The best version of it does not announce itself. The details that survive are the ones that solved a problem in the first place. 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.

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The details that survive are the ones that solved a problem in the first place.Mr. Nick Sanford / Staff

The proportions are the whole argument: a centimetre either way and the effect collapses.

For years the answer seemed obvious. It rewards restraint, which is exactly why it keeps being rediscovered. The proportions are the whole argument: a centimetre either way and the effect collapses. It rewards restraint, which is exactly why it keeps being rediscovered. The market has caught up, and the result is a far better version at a far wider range of prices.

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. 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.