Ladies and gentlemen I offer for your consideration a question I raised with fellow blogger Cristoffer, of the Swedish blog, Well Dressed.
The photos below have been shamelessly borrowed, with permission, from his July 6 post.
I commented to this post with the question," have you noticed how short the jackets are in your posts? Is that a Swedish thing, or do Americans wear their jackets too long?"
The reply was that Americans, (and by implication the British), wear their jackets TOO long.
Now obviously several things come into play. Age of wearer, culture, class, race .... , but I was taught that jackets should cover the wearer's rear end. Supposedly that is derived from the drape of hacking jackets. There is a lot of arcania abounding length, but simply put, a man standing should be able to cup his hands under the hem of his jacket.
So, are our jackets too long?
Am I simply too old to see the cool factor of shorter jackets
Are the Swedes all wet, and should we bomb them back to the stone age, or flood them with global warming?
I await your erudition.
The photos below have been shamelessly borrowed, with permission, from his July 6 post.
I commented to this post with the question," have you noticed how short the jackets are in your posts? Is that a Swedish thing, or do Americans wear their jackets too long?"
The reply was that Americans, (and by implication the British), wear their jackets TOO long.
Now obviously several things come into play. Age of wearer, culture, class, race .... , but I was taught that jackets should cover the wearer's rear end. Supposedly that is derived from the drape of hacking jackets. There is a lot of arcania abounding length, but simply put, a man standing should be able to cup his hands under the hem of his jacket.
So, are our jackets too long?
Am I simply too old to see the cool factor of shorter jackets
Are the Swedes all wet, and should we bomb them back to the stone age, or flood them with global warming?
I await your erudition.
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