For the past few years, the big story in men’s fashion — in women’s fashion, too, for that matter, and just in fashion fashion, as gender boundaries have continued to blur, on the catwalk as elsewhere — has been the rise to prominence of street wear, for want of a better term (athleisure being a worse one), and the concurrent fall from favour of tailoring, which is the industry term for what you and we call shirts and trousers and jackets and proper shoes rather than trainers.
But fashion is cyclical, as we know. And for a season or two now, the news from London, Milan, Paris and New York has been of a return to splendour, a resurgence of the most traditional, most hidebound, most formal item in a…
