2010s Menswear Trends To Leave In The Past
Looking back, from the outside in, the 2010s were a bold and often brilliant decade for menswear. It was a time of experimentation when no one look ruled. Men swaggered in tailoring, sportswear, and everything in between at various points. Smart dress got casual, casual dress got fashionable.
Not everything worked though, did it? Waking up the morning after the decade before, we can already cringe at some of the clothes we wore, and some 2010s trends, especially from the first half of the decade, have already died a quiet death. Scoop-collar T-shirts, top knots, and peacocking tailoring have all gone away without anyone needing to start a petition.
Whisper it, but even a few of the classics got a little overexposed during the decade of Instagram. They’re too evergreen to retire completely but we must be getting a little bit tired of biker jackets, bomber jackets, Chelsea boots, roll necks and minimalist sneakers.
But that’s not what we’re focusing on today. Below is a list of trends whose time is most definitely up, along with what to replace them with.
Shrink-Wrap Jeans
Skinny jeans have only every really worked on men with a very specific leg shape. They look great on tall, lean men who only wear all-black, have a tendency to chain-smoke and are handy with a guitar. Basically, rock stars.
If you’re not a rock star, don’t have skinny-but-not-too-skinny legs and aren’t at least six feet tall, then skinny jeans probably made you look like a tightly-wrapped sausage.
Because the window for success rate with skinny jeans is so small, and the concept of the rock star doesn’t really exist any more, let’s just leave them behind shall we? It’s a small wonder what attracted millions of men to them in the first place anyway.
Let’s face it, they’re hard to put on and take off; restrict your movement; the pockets are impossible to put anything in; they’re anti-comfort; make your top half look bigger (not in a good way), and make you look child-like. Yeah, let’s definitely leave them.