Recently, the fashion section of the weekend newspaper focused attention on two menswear designers hailed for their sensible approach to a line of menswear featuring random period British influences.
Wainwright and Neville, known for their ineluctable hipness, according to a New York Times editor, have understandably commanded a ubiquitous celebrity following.
More importantly, their fresh innovative offerings won the duo a coveted award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
Their line, Rag & Bone, fuses British tailoring with an eye to American worker's clothing.
With fabrics that were soft and colors that were good - as they put it - it was obvious to fashionistas they'd be on their way to rag trade super-stardom.
Notwithstanding, their keenness in some lofty, aesthetic areas, I was quite startled to read an amusing quote from Mr. Wainright who proudly asserted, "It's important that our clothes have a sense of history."
To hammer the point home, he noted, "...I've been wearing these jeans every day since February and they've never been washed. I'm breaking them in."
A "Look" may turn heads on the runway, but when it comes to hygiene - well, it's never been out of fashion.
No silhouette, excluded!
If cleanliness be next to Godliness, then get thee to a shower, dear boy...
It's not just the clothes that make the man, after all.
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