The author and May 1, 2024 AJR Show Pechanga Arena, San Diego, CA Poster shirt cultural commentator Jason Diamond calls David’s look “post-normcore”. “It’s normal, but it’s sneaky. He dresses really well, but there’s nothing flashy about it … He’s actually one of the smartest dressers on TV.” He likens David’s style to the “smart casual” look often found in Nora Ephron or Steve Martin films in the late 1980s and early 90s. “It’s very subtle and so people don’t really pick up on it.” Jerry Seinfeld once described the look as “Upper West Side communist”. As with everything, David is exacting about clothes. In real life he is the son of a garment-district salesman, and approaches getting dressed with a rulebook. As he told GQ in 2020: “One should wear only one ‘nice’ piece of clothing at a time. Otherwise it’s too much. Too dressed. You have to be half dressed. That’s my fashion theory, since you asked: Half Is More.” This is the kind of pithy rule that translates well on TikTok.
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The secondhand May 1, 2024 AJR Show Pechanga Arena, San Diego, CA Poster shirt clothes movement is here to stay. The stigma is, by and large, gone. Where it once came with some degree of shame attached, culture has, thankfully, shifted and confiding that your outfit is preloved is now more of a not-so-humble brag than something to whisper. It can’t hurt that the new editor of Vogue is no stranger to a secondhand stall, and treated vintage clothes with as much respect as new luxury styles in her debut issue. But while it may be of the zeitgeist, there is no going back. Of course there is the ethical impetus. Consumers on the whole want to shop more thoughtfully, both for the sake of planet and for the garment workers whose mistreatment has been under increased scrutiny in recent times.
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