Has anyone noticed lately how some men's suit jackets just don't fit??

[ailsagirl]

Mostly I've noticed this with newscasters or weather forecasters.

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Thoughts??

[FalloutShelter]

1. Who knew Pee Wee Herman

Would create a fashion trend.

[applegrove]

2. The clothing business has to evolve so that men have to buy new suits.

Same with the colour lobby. Every year experts get together and decide what colors are in in cars and appliances, what colours are out. They sell more stuff if the fashions change. Tight men's suits have been around for a decade.

[ailsagirl]

15. Since I'm rarely around men in suits...

I would see it when I’d be watching the weather forecast
🥴

[LakeArenal]

3. I've seen men rip out their crotch kneeling down.

[Me.]

4. It Was The Latest Look

now going too far

[FuzzyRabbit]

5. What is really odd that I've had the same suit for 15 years

and now it is much smaller than when I first bought it.

And clothes aren't the only thing getting smaller. The type in books used to be easy to read, now it is much too small to read easily.

I tell you, the world is going to hell in a handbasket.

[OAITW r.2.0]

16. That's happened to me as well.

Not that I've gained weight, just that it has relocated to other places on my body. Sadly, the clothes don't follow.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

17. OH YEAH! (nt)

[msongs]

6. there's always this look...

[Bev54]

7. I agree, they seem to look like a boy who outgrew his suit.

[unc70]

8. Overly tight suits started 5-8 years sto

That style looked really bad even on skinny guys like Colbert or Noah. Everything looks like everyone is 30 pounds too heavy

[ailsagirl]

13. Well said

It looks as if any one of them exhaled/inhaled deeply, they’d pop their buttons.

[hlthe2b]

18. DId it coincide with the 4 sizes too small tight t-shirt look?

especially among the "ripped" work-out types?

[Major Nikon]

9. There's quite a bit wrong with the top one

I suspect this might be an example of how a suit is not supposed to fit.

Personally I can get by just fine with off the rack suits which are adjusted to fit. Some people may be best served with a fully bespoke suit.

[2naSalit]

10. I've noticed...

That some, like Steven Colbert, have a paunch and it seems to be in the way at times. He can never decide whether to keep it buttoned or unbuttoned.

[ailsagirl]

14. It looks so uncomfortable!!

[ret5hd]

11. How a suit is supposed to fit:

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. Maybe they're auditioning for the show

What Not To Wear.

[RobinA]

19. Most Definitely,

although suit fit has never been great. Nowadays they are too short and often too tight. I actually see this more often amongst celebrities than in real life. The too short jacket drives me CRAZY. I worked in Men's Clothing for awhile in the '80's, so I'm cursed with always noticing this sort of thing. Both the pictured dudes look like they outgrew their jackets.

[ailsagirl]

21. Glad I'm not alone in my observation

[Fla Dem]

20. First noticed it with Lester Holt on NBC Nightly news.

My initial thought was either buy a suit that fits or unbutton it. It looks ridiculous as if their stomachs are too fat.

[Paladin]

22. Mens' suits aren't fitted worth a shit, anymore.

Even the high-priced ones. Glad I'm retired and don't have to put one on every day.

[Aristus]

24. They can be if one has a good tailor.

Like everything else, you get what you pay for. A cheap suit with cheap finishing would look awful on Jason Momoa.

I spend a little extra, and get a great suit with great tailored finishing. They can last me for decades with proper care.

[Paladin]

26. Count yourself lucky.

Even the best tailors have trouble overcoming grotesque fashion trends.

[Aristus]

27. I bought a 'trendy' suit once - a four-button, when three really should be the maximum.

It was actually my marriage-proposal suit, and I liked it a lot. Purchased in it 1999, and a few years later, I didn't see anyone anywhere wearing a four-button suit. I got rid of it, and I'm sticking to the classics from now on.

[Aristus]

23. In the 90's, baggy, billowy suit cuts were popular.

Now it's a tight-fitting cut. Neither is especially flattering.

I always go for a classic moderate cut for my suits. That way, I don't have to change them from year to year.

[Wounded Bear]

25. Backlash from the trumpsuit look...

[Celerity]

28. Richard Anderson (bespoke, 13 Savile Row, proper suitings)

https://www.richardandersonltd.com/

[ailsagirl]

29. That's more like it

[betsuni]

30. YES!

It really bugs me. Yesterday I pointed out to my husband the NBC weatherman's suit: ridiculously tight, button straining, too short. Looks really uncomfortable, and gaining a pound or two is out of the question. Not flattering. A sausage busting out of its casing.

Now the husband's retired, but he used to come home from clothes shopping empty handed because of the tight-fit trend that young men like. He finally sprung for a custom made suit. The trend has jumped the shark. Only a matter of time for baggy to come around again.