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Women can dress like super-feminine models, or like river-rafting tomboys, and look great either way. Men are more constrained.

The fashion industry keeps trying to sell men make-up, fragrences, frilly shirts, skirts, all sorts of whiplash fads, and it mostly doesn't work, thank Goodness. Most guys buy new stuff when the old stuff wears out, and we buy four of everything so we won't have to shop again for a year or two.

The New York Times Style Magazine is a hoot, with the crazy stuff they want to get us to buy and wear. We don't need $3500 capes; we can get perfectly good plaid shirts for $15 at Target.

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John Larkin   Highland Technology, Inc   trk 

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They've been trying that since the days of Marc Bolan's T-Rex and like you say, thankfully it hasn't caught on.

I think you have to differentiate between married men and bachelors/ divorced men. Married men are generally frog-marched to smart men's outfitters by their wives whether they like it or not. Single/divorced men aren't nearly so bothered and after a certain age, don't really give a FF what they look like. :-)

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Cursitor Doom

The point being that single divorced men of a certain age have been in the marriage market long enough that they clearly aren't a saleable item.

Putting a frilly wrapper on a can of Spam is not going to move it, and even the most unrealistic of single men - Cursitor Doom does come to mind - aren't going to bother.

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