Outside, Outsized: Big Bags, Bigger Glasses, the Biggest Coats
"When, and why, did everything begin to get so big?", you might've been wondering. Bags, glasses, coats – all are suddenly outsized, when it seems like just yesterday everything felt more restrained, more micro, more unassuming.
Whether this is a response to the minimalist withholding of grand sartorial gestures of a quiet luxury era, the nostalgia-indebted formulation of the eclectic grandpa aesthetic, or both: your clothes and accessories ought to fit you like you bought them for someone with double your measurements.
As this is something Mr Porter and I both agree on, it made for evident necessity of a rundown of our favorite examples of where and how this tendency manifests.
Think (& Dress) Big:
Big Glasses
They say eyes are the windows to the soul – but what would that make glasses then? Either way, after a lengthy period of smaller frames, specs are now comically enlarged. Skeptical? Take it from Bella Hadid, Saint Laurent, or Ottolinger. Be they for sun or for reading or for show, present day's best glasses are your optician's biggest.
Big Coats
In what is the potential aftermath of the mob wife trend from around and about a year ago, menswear's been overrun with broad-shouldered, knee-length or longer, gangster-like coats. So, if you haven't already, it's high time you unshackled and embraced your inner Soprano.
Big Bags
I haven't been able to shut up about big bags all year, so I'm certainly not gonna stop now. Once more, the fashion powers that be are nudging you to invest in a handy, roomy tote to work, travel, or run errands with. Believe me when I say though, there's no way back from getting used to such ludicrous capaciousness.
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