The dreaded 'slim fit' - where did it all start?

[comrade]

Didn’t Pee Wee Herman make a feint in this direction? Can’t remember when he left the scene.

Feint? His version of slim-fit pre-dated the Fashionista driven look of the early/mid 2000s
by at least two decades:

Pee-wee Herman - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[chrlsful]

he left after his arrest, no?...
(was his more a ‘pretend it’s the 50s” ?) not sure much abt him
(till after the arrest).

 

[ClassicStyle1950]

Everything in moderation is my motto. I never embraced the super slim fit, but, I did embrace slim. I keep my weight down and still wear “slim”. What goes around comes around!

 

[suitedcboy]

The first photos show slim fit, "waist suppression" fit, and slender pants. That fit looks acceptable, even good, on slender build persons. The abomination is the skin tight with coat length above buttocks bulge point 2-4 inches. A fit with no way to move if you do anything other than stand motionless. That look always looked like the suit was laundered in hot water or your mom made you wear the suit she bought that spring before your reached puberty and had the growth spurt.

 

[JUAN MANUEL]

As always with fashion trends my feelings flow from "laudable to laughable". Slim fit suits brought back higher armholes, higher notch lapels, focus on elongated silhouette, less shoulder padding and eventually lighter construction things that I look for in a suit jacket.

But trying to squeeze my beer belly in a Thom Browne schoolboy jacket is not pleasant. Remember when Phil Dunphy in "Modern Family" bought a gray slim suit?

 

[comrade]

Maybe it was merely an homage by gay designers to pre-pubescent boys.

 

[William Kazak]

Seems to me that I had a slim suit of sharkskin. It was my eight grade graduation. It was purchased at Robert Hall in Hammond, Indiana. 1962.

 

[double00]

levi's super slim 606 jean came out in 1965 as part of levi's lifestyle pivot .

the lee 101 jean is nearly as skinny over boots and goes back to 1925 as a riding pant .

here's a portrait of george ******* Washington in 1780 .

you can go further back , find as much skinny fit as you can handle . there is no *starting point* ; fashion is not a social language . fashion is device .