Gentlemen, Your Pants Are Too Cropped - The Wall Street Journal

Posted: 30 Aug 2019 12:00 AM PDT

WHEN I WORE an ankle-baring suit to the office, a colleague joked, "It looks like you're wearing your little brother's suit."

I tried to laugh it off but to be honest, I was already self-conscious about strolling the cubicles in cropped pants in such a conservative midtown-Manhattan workplace. Although I didn't get around to trying the trend until 2013, it can be traced back to New York designer Thom Browne's signature look—shrunken suit jacket and highwater pants—which he introduced in 2001. The prescient style was derided...