I’ve purchased items from International Male in the past, and have been pleased with the quality of the items.
Maybe I’m behind the times, but some of the things I’ve seen in their recent catalogs strike me as really weird.
I’m truely not trying to offend anyones sense of taste, but this looks to me like something right out of The Music Man.
Is this representative of modern fashion? Is anyone really wearing this?
I mean besides used car salesmen and carnival barkers.
The reason it looks horrible is because of the symmetry. If they tweaked the color scheme slightly on one side and slightly tweaked the direction/shade of a stripe or two on the other side it could look quite modern/edgy.
Doesn’t Matthew Broderick, who starred in a production of The Music Man even, wear stuff like that? I swear I’ve seen pics of him and SJP that immediately made me think of the Good Humor man.
Browsing through the International Male site (some of the stuff does look pretty sharp, but the rest…comedy gold!), I see they also have this similar ensemble. It’s the lavender shoes that really complete the look. And of course “Every well-dressed man needs a summer suit such as this one”…provided he lives in Candyland. And is somehow employed in the sex trade industry.
At least this little number would make you look like a Bond villain, so that’s kinda cool.