To really appreciate clothes and to fully understand what you truly like, you have run through the full gauntlet of menswear trends and make it out of the other side alive. After you’ve tried multiple trends and fallen into the menswear equivalent of a Looney Tunes trap floor, only then can you spot a brand or fad bubbling back up and think, ah, yes, you again.
In my case, about 12 or 13 years ago, I fully bought into the slim-taper denim movement. I jumped in feet first with Rag & Bone’s

