The Real Reason Cowboy Boots Found Their Footing
As masculinity has increasingly been cast as something to correct, soften, qualify or apologize for, the boot has walked into the resulting vacuum.
By VIVEK NAGRANI
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Vivek Nagrani designs men’s clothing and is the founder of ARTICL3. He is the author of ‘The Burden of Masculinity’ and likes to start arguments.
As masculinity has increasingly been cast as something to correct, soften, qualify or apologize for, the boot has walked into the resulting vacuum.
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The rise of GLP-1 drugs is forcing men to rethink not merely their size, but their style.
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The uncomfortable truth is that the consumers drawn to the biggest brands tend to be those newest to money and least secure in their status.
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ARTICL3 is for men who know why they own what they own, not those who define themselves by where they shop.
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Friendships once forged by boys on a field or a stoop now happen through screens, and many of the male figures they find there are extreme and performative.
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The fate of headwear shows how men’s fashion has both lost its mind and its dignity.
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A culture that quietly used clothing to determine who mattered deserved to go, but the old order has been replaced with nothing but laziness.
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A woman shopping for a man tends to look for color and trends that rarely align with the true, authentic persona of the man she is dressing.
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The uniform is a far more effective means of transforming a group of individuals into a collective organism than an oath or a written doctrine.
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While hoodies, jeans, and sneakers may be increasingly prevalent, society still operates according to an invisible system of dress norms.
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The psychology behind why men rely on a narrow, familiar wardrobe — and what that reveals about culture, identity, and confidence.
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Timothée Chalamet was right to chastise opera, according to our writer — people dressed so badly that he recently left the Met at intermission.
By VIVEK NAGRANI
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