Once upon a time, men dressed like peacocks, keeping the richest colors for their own wardrobes. A colorful men's fashion exhibit is now on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A reporter for The Daily Beast dons frippery of his own.
Men's fashion may inspire yawns today, but it wasn't always so. Blake Gopnik visits a new exhibit that celebrates a time when guys donned sparkly kaftans and scarlet leggings.
To visit The Peacock Male: Exuberance and Extremes in Masculine Dress at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, it seemed right to don peacockery. A black velvet jacket in an Oscar Wilde cut appeared a suitable option. I might as well not have bothered. How could such a thing compete with a 1780s tailcoat in gold- and blue-striped silk, with a garden's worth of tulips embroidered across its cuffs, lapels, and pockets?
Original Source: The Daily Beast
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