Why Are Young Men Wearing Such Tightly Fitted Dress Clothes These Days?

Gussied up like teenage Jezebels!

It's an unfortunate trend, because it only looks good on certain types of bodies. Before I get flamed, of course people have the right to wear whatever they want, but not everything is going to be universally flattering because bodies are different. People should dress with what suits them best, and not limit themselves to what looks good on a skinny twink.

The Poindexter look shows up every few years. It’s cheap and disposable.

Companies are creating some kickass fabrics and they’re finally giving us articulated knee and elbow darts.

Wash&wear is better for the environment.

I didn't understand half the words R3 wrote.

The narrow "Thom Brown" silhouette looks ridiculous on men who aren't built like young Timothee here.

Is this the logical next step?

I understand your point, OP, but if I was built like Tyler I’d show it all off too!

"Swimsuit area"? Lordy.

James Bond, the early Connery version, wore it best, but it was still tailored, not painted on, and not too short at the ankle.

I did see a lot of young men dressed like this in Switzerland and Germany the last time I was there. So it is a trend. I say flaunt it if you've got it. But it really should be for men in their 20s. Older than that and it would look silly on you.

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It only looks good if you are a stick figure. Even if you have a nice muscular body you look ridiculous in tightly-fitted dress clothing. Like a sausage trying to bust out of its casing.

They don't put on their clothes on my head, so I couldn't care less about what they are wearing, OP.

Op has been asleep for at least the last decade.

Tightly fitted, as long as the seams aren't buckling and you don't look like a sausage, is fine, but a strange choice because it cannot be comfortable.

What I can't wrap my head around is the current trend of waiting for the veritable flood with cuffs up around the ankle. It just looks silly to me.

Can thug culture adopt this?

What is the point of the high-water pants legs??!

To show your socks.

They look great. Another thing to enjoy about strolling around Manhattan when the weather is warm.

Ha ha! I started a trend! Ha ha!

In the late 1980s - early 1990s when I wanted to find trim fitted suits or clothes, I would have to either buy Italian imports or have them custom made. Now that I am in my 50s and I want traditional fit, some stores don't even carry them, such as Banana Republic, Charles Tyrwhitt, even Brooks Brothers has very limited regular fit clothes. WTF?

Everybody wants to show off their penis these days.

The 60+ year old prez of my company wears those tight jeans. Everyone snickers. He looks ridiculous, but what can you do? He's also had obvious face work done, so I'm not surprised.

[quote] Why Are Young Men Wearing Such Tightly Fitted Dress Clothes These Days?

Because they're all filthy little slut whores, trying to tempt us!!!!

When Tyler whats his name was on the bachelorette last year - all of his pants were impossibly tight - like skin tight tights.

I call it the "Pee Wee Herman" look. It's just not attractive at all, and not professional looking in the work environment.

I'm an old fart in Switzerland. My suits days were in finance in NY/London in the 80s, 90s. Honestly, only expensive suits looked good back then, even on fit handsome young men. Cheap suits were a disaster and an embarrassment.

I like what's happened this last decade. Young men here buy cheap stylish suits and the men and the suits look great and sexy. We know they aren't Brioni but they really truly look good. Of course they can and do buy skinny suits for 2K, and they look great, too, but the 300 buck ones are a revelation.

The flood-pants thing is a carryover from women's fashion, I think women started wearing too-short pants to show off their expensive shoes.

It's a ridiculous trend for men, as men's feel are proportionally larger, and their shoes are duller. And the floods look silly on everyone.

Do you like my shorts?

Does this suit make me look fat?

The tight pants only work on guys who have a nice bubble but. Otherwise if they have a flat ass it just looks like they have a load of crap in their pants, sort of like a loose diaper.

Zara suits have gone looser over the last 2 years. This suit was copied from one in my collection. Mine is a polyester baby blue stretch suit I bought in a shop for the black gentleman, in the early 80s, in Savannah Georgia. I replaced the buttons with blue mirror. H&M copied it 15 years ago, as well.

r30 I agree. One of my coworkers who is in his 30s wore some tight dress pants and he ass for days. those pants could barely contain those globes. Unless you can fill them out really well, opt for regular fit.

And even looser Zara suit, this season.

I am too fat for this style :(

OP posting from 2014?

R3, if your clothes are so tight that you need darts at the elbows and knees, they’re too tight.

Too-tight clothes are trashy, whether they’re on a man or a woman, whether the wearer looks good in them or not, and whether the wearer is a bouncer at a Las Vegas nightclub or a Eurotrash-wannabe celebrity.

Suits today all look two sizes too small,

Everything is stretch. This cute guy is skinny. A guy could easily buy this a size smaller and stretch it over his fit fanny and "swimsuit area"

Because they are immodest and dirty young lads.

Outrageous!

The hottest guy on “Vanderpump Rules” tv show is Peter. His suits are awful. Can you imagine how much hotter he would be with a properly tailored suit? Hopefully age and maturity will straighten his taste out. The suit in this picture looks 3 sizes too small.

I suppose the term "drape" means nothing anymore.

Dressed up like a million dollar trooper

Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper

Super duper

r27 interesting influence of women's fashion. I dont like the high water look. I cannot stand having my ankles exposed when wearing pants and I dont like seeing other's guys ankles either.

This suit is fucking ridiculous.

I don't know anyone who could wear this.

Whoops, here's the suit.

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It's not just the young guys that are doing it. Jon Hamm's too small suits lately. Your too old, get a bigger size.

[quote]Young men, often slim and sporty looking, prancing around in suits. Tightly fitting suits, some of them fairly expensive looking but appearing to have been spray painted onto their bodies. Occasionally the trousers are almost obscenely tight around the swimsuit area.

Men, acting like women. Men wanting to be with one another, men touching each other. Their stubbly chins rubbing up against one another. Touching each other. Manly hands touching swirls of of chest hair.

I agree. It’s hideous. I live in London and see it everywhere. Not attractive.

Yeah R50 the Brits are REALLY bad for this. Not just suits, either. Jeans so tight in the UK you can tell what religion the guy is.

Personally, I blame PubG.

What’s worse is when guys wearing tight fitting suits wear boxer briefs underneath which are clearly visible and ruin the look. These suits call for wearing briefs only.

They should go commando.

It looks like his clothes shrunk.

I saw a very tall guy wearing this style in London yesterday.

I think unfortunately we're going of see more of this.

(it looks idiotic)

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R56 I wore those in canary yellow poplin when a few of us 90s hipster gays weekended in Cherry Grove one summer. Of course mine featured detailed bulge.

High-water bell-bottoms! Low-cut! Stretch burlap!

Designers and retailers have to come up with a way of moving merchandise. The current look is not something I am a fan of but what happens if you put on a older Brooks Brothers suit that theoretically should never go out of style now looks ridiculous forcing you into the store. About 10 years ago designers dropped waist lines so that trousers sat below your waist - terribly uncomfortable and not a good look on most rear ends. The dropped waist cuts the behinds in half and makes everyone look fat. I actually lost my cool in a BB store in Boston trying to find comfortable trousers. So happy that is gone. Another annoying trend currently is that khakis are out of date - everything is jean cut. Everything goes in cycles. Shoulder pads and pleats will be back soon.

I'm waiting for this.