Weiss thinks it’s a post-pandemic reaction, too, but more connected to wanting to dress up again after wearing sweatpants and athleisure for years. “There was this post-COVID thing of dressing up by choice,” he says. “In a world where we used to be forced to dress up to go to work, now there’s this idea of getting dressed up of your own volition.”
Personally, I find it fascinating that young people—in the midst of unprecedented wealth inequality, told that they’ll never own a…

