There are problems in contemporary cut and fit standards that are inherent. In sum total, I feel the jacket below doesn't fit horribly. But add all the issues together and they tend to make the wearer look ridiculous. I.e., if you combine barely straining waist suppression, cutaway quarters and a high button stance, you get gaping quarters, and it looks like heck! And there's no remedy except changing one of those parameters. The outfit at issue doesn't look as bad in large measure because the waist band of the sweater conceals what would other wise expose the waistband of the low rise pants, abrupt transition to shirt and dangling tie end both perched above a gleaming belt buckle.
If we compare this cut to a period with some similarities (The '30's.) we don't see that problem. These jackets also had dramatic waist suppression and a high button stance, and tended to be shorter to boot. But the quarters tended not to be cutaway so extremely, but most importantly, they were worn with full drape trousers with a waistband 4 to 6 inches higher. Plus the wearer usually had a waistcoat just concealing the top of the waistband.
I don't know why designers feel a need to champion the dweeb look, but I so dearly wish they would lose this need to make the young men who wear it look ridiculous.
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The Problem with Fit.
If we compare this cut to a period with some similarities (The '30's.) we don't see that problem. These jackets also had dramatic waist suppression and a high button stance, and tended to be shorter to boot. But the quarters tended not to be cutaway so extremely, but most importantly, they were worn with full drape trousers with a waistband 4 to 6 inches higher. Plus the wearer usually had a waistcoat just concealing the top of the waistband.
I don't know why designers feel a need to champion the dweeb look, but I so dearly wish they would lose this need to make the young men who wear it look ridiculous.
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