TRENDING MENSWEAR

Personal style is what sets us apart from one person to the next. We all have one. What one person might not look twice at, another is screenshotting to take inspiration from. And as individual as we aim to be, I think we all have an inherent nature to fit in to varying degrees, which is why I think more people buy into trends than others.

Ignoring trends is something I think is important to developing your own taste, yet I think they complicity infiltrate our personal style without us even noticing. Maybe it is not the entirety of the trend that filters through the net, but our outfits may occasionally nod towards them.

I started tucking my t-shirts and jumpers a while back now. I feel it accentuates proportion and brings focus to the trousers, which is usually my focal point. But as I started thinking about this piece on trends, I started thinking if me tucking was something I picked up through outside influences. I first started seeing it on runways in 2016/2017 (going back even further… 1999 on the school playground) and since then I have naturally gravitated to doing it as well. But if it doesn’t appear on the runway anymore and it begins being phased out by designers, will I stop doing it? At the minute I feel really good about it, but I’ll be interested to see if I look back at this post and think, “oh remember the time I used to tuck my t-shirts in" , it just shows how fashion is constantly in the recycle process!!!.

I do not think we would be having conversations on menswear trends a few years ago as much as we are having now. Menswear was more about uniform then it was relevance and now menswear fashion cycles – as the industry continues to grow – have sped up to the point where more ideas are being brought to the fore. Without uniform codes, men need more choice and if that means dad trainers, straight trousers or tucking in their long sleeves, then so be it.