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Times
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Times
Why men of a certain age are jazzing up their specs
There has been a striking development in men's style this summer — and if you've been in the vicinity of a gentleman who pays attention to these things, it may have been staring you in the face. A shacket, decent jeans and the right trainers have long been markers of a man looking to dress himself young. Now a pair of 'interesting' glasses is on his shopping list too. Have you noticed? Men's opticals have had something of a — to use the Gen Z term — glow-up. If the styles Daniel Craig, Pedro Pascal and a number of my friends' sixtysomething fathers have traded their old specs in for lately are anything to go by, the days of inconspicuous shades for men are — for now — through.
Wall Street Journal
23-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- Wall Street Journal
Step Aside, Cary Grant and Steve McQueen. Our Hunt for a New Men's Style Icon.
If I had a nickel for every time a Wall Street Journal reader cited Cary Grant as a men's style inspiration, I would have long ago fled my 'cozy' apartment and the communal washing machine that only works when you kick it three times and whisper the Lord's Prayer. 'Pretty sure Cary Grant wouldn't carry one,' a reader commented on a recent article about large bags. In response to a piece on grungy fashion, another quipped, 'Cary Grant rolls in his grave.' My eyes rolled in their sockets behind a pair of flimsy, modern glasses Grant would have loathed.
