The designer welcomes the return of the skinny suit.
By
Samuel Hine,
a senior men’s style editor at New York
There was a fundamental problem with Thom Browne’s line of shrunken tailoring in the beginning: The gray flannel suits — narrow with high, tight armholes and cropped trousers, as if run through a commercial dryer — were expensive, and the people who could afford them couldn’t fit into them. “It wasn’t the best business model,” he says. “But if I had listened to too many people, I don’t think I would be around.”
