Well, actually, double breasted suits and blazers are definitely in fashion.
So are bowties and vests. Depends on where you hang out.
Hats, ascots. Pretty much the same thing. If you feel good wearing them, then do.
My roof keeps the sun and rain off my face just fine, and I look like less of a dork under my roof than under a hat.
-double-breasted suits: Oh, ye gods no!
-hats (no, NOT baseball caps): Only if you’re Texan or Australian.
-ascots: What?
-beards (non-muslims): Maybe we could make those long sideburns come back. Like Civil War generals.
-bowties: Only goobers wear bowties.
-spats: What?
-berets: Bahahaha!
Now bluethree knows what she’s talkin’ about. A good quality fur felt hat, with a brim, will protect your head AND your neck from rain, and will keep your eyes in the shade whether the sun is ahead of you or to the side. I wear them, and like them, and really don’t give a rat’s patoot if folks think they’re in style or not.
Likewise, I’ve had my beard for about 90% of the last twenty-five years. Don’t care if it’s IN style, it’s MY style.
::hand shoots up::
As a woman, I prefer men in the olde-style dress. What I wouldn’t give to see more men dress like they did in the 17-1800s…
::le sigh::
In high school (mid-80’s) I wore a fedora. I would love to see them make a comeback. Once you wear a well-made hat, baseball caps will never do the trick for you.
I still wear a fedora from time to time.
Do Orthodox Jews count as “non-muslims”?
-double-breasted suits
Not gone completely for that long… were big around here in the mid-90s – updated, 90s-like double-breasteds, that is, not 1920s Chicago style. Everyone seems to be assuming that’s what was meant.
Heck, the Navy wears the things (double-breasted suits) day in and day out.
-hats (no, NOT baseball caps)
If I have it my way, never. At least not if “style” is gonna be the primary consideration. Let the fashionistas be the ones who surrender, I want practical head coverings (and in winter that means keep warm my head AND EARS, DAMMIT!!!) and the style police can just set themselves on fire for all I care.
In subtropical climates, OTOH, well, already a genuine “Panama” (which are NOT made in Panama) is just utterly cool but you have to be able to pull the look, otherwise you’ll look like Juan Valdez’s dorkier brother.
Otherwise if there’s no blazing sun or chilly rain in your location, a hat is pointless. Not as pointless as a necktie, but still pointless.
Of course, Top Hats should be forever nothing but props for stage magicians and dancers.
-ascots
-spats
What the heck for? We might as well ask about snoods.
-beards (non-muslims)
Right now we’re in a “stubble” mode in the West, where the “rugged” types get only partly shaved.
-bowties
As in, become the norm? Hardly. Become de-nerdified? Who knows.
-berets
Doubtful.
-vests
They’ll be showing up soon enough. Their last peak was in the late 70s, so they’re about due. Again, in an “updated” interpretation.
Double-brested suits: Not until the re-formalization of the workplace.
Hats: They’ll come back with the double-brested suits.
Ascots: Never particularly popular at any point, and they only work with a fairly limited amount of other clothing.
Beards: I’d say that they’re more popular now than they have been throughout most of the 20th century.
Bowties: They look a little too goofy, especially when one doesn’t where a vest
Spats: Only for the most formal of clothing.
Berets: Have no clue.
Vests: After the return of the double-brested suit and hats, but before the return of the bow-tie.
Orthodox Christians certainly do, and plenty of us sport beards.
Real hats rock.
Quack: Proud fedora wearer.
I have long been in favor of the fashions of the 20’s and the 1890’s to come back. I wear a cabbie hat, not a fedora. Sorry, I cant pull it off, and I prefer the proletarian look anyway. I also have a goatee, when I remember to shave.
I don’t see a return to berets, however. Samuel L. Jackson and The King of Queens do them, but I just don’t see them coming back. People might think you are trying to be French, and beat you up.
Bowties? If you can pull it off without looking like a knob, yeah. Go for it. But most people can’t. Charles Osgood, and maybe the Ring Announcer who goes, “Lets get ready to RUMMMMMBLEEEE!”
Ascots? They are from the 1890’s, so I would like to see them come back, with high stiff collars and waistcoats. But then, I wouldn’t mind seeing women in corsets and hoop-skirts either.
And sleeve garters for men…yeah…we need shirts that need sleeve garters. That would be awesome.
Why would you want to see women in hoop skirts, Mr. Babbington? Those things were gigantic*, and they look like they were painful to wear.
I wonder if [Moderator Hat]s will ever become fashionable. 
And Saddam Hussein. But I don’t know that he’s ever been on the cutting edge of fashion.
Criminy. I’ve had a beard for over a decade now, and wear double-breasted suits. And I look a damn sight better in them than I would clean-shaven in a single-breasted suit. “Fashion” can get stuffed.
Full waistcoats can be very stylish in the right context, but very few men can wear either a bowtie (in a non-tuxedo context) or an ascot without looking like a twit.
And spats ain’t coming back. Ever.
A vote for hats here. I can’t wait until I’m distinguished (read: old) enough to pull off wearing a good hat.
Well, most of your list comes in and out of style every so often. But I must say, I have an almost uncontrollable urge to slap the shit out of ANY man who wears a bow tie (unless he’s wearing a tux). It is the most obnoxious, pretentious piece of clothing a guy can wear. Give him a porkpie hat while you’re at it. Then I can push him off a bridge and be done with him altogether.
word. I love fedoras and I wish they came back in style. I think they look so dressy and classy. My boyfriend wore a cheap-o one for a Halloween costume this year and damn did he look good.
The only ascot I ever saw was on a character in Scooby Doo.
And his was recently dumped into the same bin they dropped Scrappy Doo’s cooling carcass into.
My husband wears a fedora when he wears a suit. He looks like a ganster/hasedic Jew (sp). It’s kinda cool, but usually looks like a costume, since his standard daily attire is camo (bleh!).