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Monday, August 21, 2023

How Do the Suits on ‘Suits’ Stack Up? A Menswear Expert Weighs In

Vanity Fair: Everyone and their mother is apparently obsessed with Suits right now. Although it ended its original run nearly four years ago, the USA legal drama—which starred Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams, Gina Torres, and Meghan Markle, in her last major acting role before she became the Duchess of Sussex—has seen an astounding resurgence this summer. According to Nielsen, Suits was streamed on Netflix and Peacock for a combined nearly 4 billion minutes in a single week after premiering on Netflix on June 17. That’s a whole lotta Suits.

1 comment:

Donald Duck said...

Coming into this article, I have bene binge-watching this show for the past couple weeks and have bene obsessed with it. I have always loved legal dramas and the plot point of the main character being a fraud is an interesting spin. Moving into the article, it was an interesting first point made about the shoulders that the padded shoulders has been out of style for almost 20 years. It was impressive that the expert who was interviewed for this article could identify the Tom Ford inspiration, that the costume of designer of the show remarked on in an interview in 2013. The expert on this article, continued to comment about the lapels and the collars with mixed reviews, noting that one of the characters he analyzed had a lapel that made the suit feel less powerful and intense, which contrasts the other suits on the show. The collar gap was surprisingly bad in many of the suits on the show and I honestly had never heard of the concept before reading the article.