Baggy menswear: is it a thing now?

[mkm88414]

A friend of mine owns a men's clothing boutique and is on top of the new trends. According to him (and other things I've seen) baggy menswear is back.

He wears slacks with pleated fronts and baggy crotch and seat areas. What do you guys think about this trend?

There's something to being comfortable but baggy menswear seems strange since I've always seen fitted clothing to be a statement of it being more personal. Are you guys on board with baggy?

 

[Thin White Duke]

We've suffered seeing shrunken crap for the last several years. It was inevitable that sooner or later the pendulum would swing back to the opposite extreme. Who cares? Buy or have made what you prefer and what fits you well, screw the ridiculous attempts to get you to throw out your current wardrobe and start over.

 

[mkm88414]

We've suffered seeing shrunken crap for the last several years. It was inevitable that sooner or later the pendulum would swing back to the opposite extreme. Who cares? Buy or have made what you prefer and what fits you well, screw the ridiculous attempts to get you to throw out your current wardrobe and start over.

I guess the question is around "what fits you well." To him the baggy stuff fits exactly as it is intended to. In my opinion, too big.

 

[GBR]

If people want to wear it, whose business but their own. I wouldn't and many here wouldn't but that is no condemnation of the style beyond me saying it looks dreadful - and that is a subjective opinion.

 

[Ich_Dien]

Trouser wise definitely a yes. Oversized jackets and shirts are probably better left to the catwalk.

 

[acconrad]

Fashion is always a reaction to what was cool. Sausage casing slim fits were cool a decade ago, so now the kids want to do the opposite to stake their own fashion. Somewhere in the middle is nice - gotta let those Christmas hams breathe, just not in puddles of fabric