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Originally posted by Jack Manfred
So I am looking to buy some pants, and I go into a Banana Republic. From reading this board I know that pleated pants are verboten. So I look at the two styles offered: both plain-front pants with a low rise. Now, the low-rise thing is silly, especially on men, and especially if you just want a pair of pants to wear in a casual office. So I go to the clerk and ask, "Do you have a pair of plain-front pants with a normal rise?" He replies, "Of course," and takes me to the pants section. After peering at the signs on the two stacks of pants, and looking a bit like a yellow lab whose owner has just palmed the tennis ball, he says, "I guess we don't."
Then, in an apparent attempt to reassert his fashion sense, he tells me not to worry, as pleated pants will be returning to stores this very fall, due to customer demand for a more businesslike pant.
What the hell is going on here?
I will not accept the answer that I should just wear suits to work. When I do that for no reason, the other attorneys in my office ask me where I am interviewing. Besides, I've seen some suits without pleats or cuffs, and it just doesn't look right to me. I was sold on the chinos without pleats, but a suit should have cuffs.
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Ignore the fools and slaves who tell you pleats are verboten. Pleats are as classic as the white button-down and the Bass Weejun. Some things just never go out of style. Now, go the nearest Nordstrom, buy yourself some Polo chinos with pleats and cuffs, take them home, mix up a pitcher of martinis and relax to some soothing McCoy Tyner and Sonny Rollins.
I swear, kids these days and their wacky neckerchiefs.
