{"id":203176,"date":"2022-04-07T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/?p=203176"},"modified":"2022-04-07T17:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T16:00:15","slug":"in-my-view-by-eric-musgrave-reports-of-the-death-of-the-suit-are-exaggerated-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/in-my-view-by-eric-musgrave-reports-of-the-death-of-the-suit-are-exaggerated-yet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"In My View by Eric Musgrave: Reports of the death of the suit are exaggerated (yet again)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Menswear has been in the news for good and bad reasons lately.<\/p>\n
The Victoria & Albert Museum is running its first major exhibition devoted to men\u2019s fashion. On until 6 November, Fashion Masculinities: The <\/em>Art of Menswear<\/em> is well worth a visit despite its shortcomings. See below for my take on the show.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Less positively, the fashion obituary writers had it in for men\u2019s suits yet again in March after the Office of National Statistics dropped the category from the basket of 700-plus products<\/a><\/span> it uses to measure inflation.<\/p>\n The ONS this year removed 15 items (including coal and doughnuts!), added 19\u00a0 and left 715 unchanged. Much was made of the eviction of men\u2019s suits for the first time since the basket was devised in 1947<\/strong> but there was less prominence for the fact the ONS introduced a men\u2019s formal jacket or blazer to ensure men\u2019s formal and business wear was still represented.<\/p>\n So, all in all, a sartorial equivalent of the legendary headline: \u201cSmall earthquake in Chile - not many dead\u201d.<\/p>\n The demise of the suit is a regular favourite topic of the consumer media,<\/strong> probably rivalled only by its casualwear cousin \u201cDenim is dead\u201d.<\/p>\n That sales of men\u2019s formal suits are declining should be a surprise to no one. The story could have been written with some justification since the mid-1960s. As a committed fan of good tailoring myself, my reaction is \u201cSo what?\u201d<\/p>\n