More from "Sex and Suits"
Apr. 11th, 2007 09:12 am"Trousers did not require a perfect body, and they had a nicely daring, casual look in themselves. They were instantly modified from their working-class simplicity and assimilated into the subtle tailoring scheme already developed for the elegant male coat of the nineteenth century. The tube-like coverings for the legs answered harmoniously to the tube-like sleeves of the coat; and when the coat-skirts began consistently to veil the clearly delineated crotch of earlier days, the brilliantly coloured necktie asserted itself, to add a needed phallic note to the basic ensemble." [my emphases]
Cor blimey.
(The idea that a suit can be casual hadn't really occurred to me - when I first saw the Tenth Doctor in his suit I thought "business attire?!", but that's not at all how he wears it.)
Cor blimey.
(The idea that a suit can be casual hadn't really occurred to me - when I first saw the Tenth Doctor in his suit I thought "business attire?!", but that's not at all how he wears it.)