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Will Dress Shirts Return to the Office?
Jim Moore, GQ’s creative director at large, said he had recently noticed point-collar dress shirts coming back into fashion, a style he had not seen much since its surge in popularity in the mid-1990s. He echoed Mr. Paget’s observations about how attitudes toward dress shirts were evolving.
“I think the dress shirt is important again, but it’s not the same as it was,” Mr. Moore said. “Now, I don’t think you need a ton of dress shirts, you need basic ones, but the right ones — the right color blue, a few beautiful ones in white, a long point collar, a spread collar and a button-down collar.”
While the quintessential dress shirt — the kind often made of cotton in a poplin or twill weave — is by no means extinct, its halcyon days may be behind us, said Sean Estok, who oversees men’s tailored clothing and shoes at Macy’s department stores.
“Customers aren’t buying four dress shirts at the same time anymore, they’re refreshing one or two,” Mr. Estok said. “They don’t need a closet to have 50 different dress shirts like they once did, because office life is not the same.”
The dress shirt’s reign as a white-collar wardrobe staple was once underscored by the garment’s many permutations: Versions designed to be worn with their shirttails hanging out, for example, or the no-iron shirts introduced in the late 1970s, which were treated with a chemical process meant to prevent wrinkling. (Many brands — Ralph Lauren, J. Crew, Brooks Brothers, Proper Cloth — still offer versions.)
Mr. Moore of GQ recalled the popularity of no-iron shirts exploding in the 1980s, the decade when he began working at the publication. Mr. Moore, who is also a stylist and consultant for men’s wear brands including Todd Snyder, Hugo Boss and Canali, described the ’80s as a golden age for dress shirts that was heavily influenced by the wardrobes of financial types associated with that time.
Flesh is Hungarian-British author David Szalay’s sixth novel.
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István isn’t one of the most talkative characters in literary fiction. He says “yeah” and “okay” a lot, and is mostly reactive to the world around him. But that quietness covers up a tumultuous life — from Hungary to England, from poverty to being in close contact with the super-rich.
He’s the center of David Szalay’s latest novel, Flesh, which just won this year’s Booker Prize. “We had never read anything quite like it,” said Roddy Doyle, chair of this year’s prize, in a statement announcing the win. “I don’t think I’ve read a novel that uses the white space on the page so well. It’s as if the author, David Szalay, is inviting the reader to fill the space, to observe — almost to create — the character with him.”
The Booker Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in literature. It honors the best English-language novels published in the U.K. Winners of the awards receive £50,000, and usually a decent bump in sales.
Szalay is a Hungarian-British author. Flesh is his sixth novel. In 2016, he was shortlisted for the Booker prize for his book All That Man Is. He told the Booker Prize that he was inspired to write Flesh after his own time living between Hungary and England, and noticing the cultural and economic divides that exist within contemporary Europe. “I also wanted to write about life as a physical experience, about what it’s like to be a living body in the world.”
Flesh beat out five other books for the win — including Susan Choi’s Flashlight, Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Katie Kitamura’s Audition, Ben Markovits’ The Rest of Our Lives and The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller.
The other judges for this year were novelist Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, critic Chris Power, author Kiley Reid and actor and producer Sarah Jessica Parker.
Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi in Predator: Badlands.
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Predator: Badlands is the latest film about an alien race that hunts things using all sorts of space-gadgets. It’s told from the Predator’s perspective. He’s an outcast sent to a hostile planet to hunt down a deadly monster to prove his worth to his people – with Elle Fanning joining as an unlikely ally. It’s from the same team that made Prey. And both Predator movies are much better than they had any right to be.
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