One of the interesting things about the Fetterman dress scandal is that the suit itself was once the gym shorts and hoodie of its day. This part got cut from my Politico op-ed (for good reason; it was getting long and tangential). But when Keir Hardie—a Scottish union leader and co-founder of what would later become... See more

there’s something more serious, sinister and deeply ironic about a pinstripe suit in 2024 when office culture and suits in the workplace (and anywhere else) barely exist.

The pinstripe suit emerged in Victorian Britain as a form of subtle "branding" for different banks, allowing employees to be identified by their specific stripe pattern

The Industrial Revolution changed the way people dressed, as mass-produced three-piece suits became more accessible. The bourgeois class ushered in a new paradigm where men were to be defined by their commitment to industry and work, not the elaborateness of their dress. Their sobriety was a direct rebuke of the excesses of the French aristocracy.

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