I don’t feel as though I’ve had an adversarial relationship with fashion. I always leave my cufflinks in the shirts. I have a few hundred neckties, about a hundred suits or jackets, fifty hats, a dozen pairs of custom shoes. How do designers profit from that, I wonder? I do see magazines devoted to men’s fashion that is distinctly not attention-getting. “Normcore”? I don’t know what that means. Now the grandson of the guy watching Joe DiMaggio is wearing a baseball cap and a jacket that looks like a blanket. You see old photographs of Yankee Stadium where every man in the grandstand has a jacket, tie, and hat. I came to New York in 1953 and started as a copyboy at the New York Times. I often dress for the afternoon, and I’ll usually put on a darker suit for going out. But I’ll dress in a suit or a jacket for that. Sometimes it’s nothing! Just going downstairs to work in my bunker. I get up in the morning and think of what I have to do. ![]() It means no casual Fridays you don’t have a Saturday attitude about going to Central Park. ![]() What does that mean? Attention to detail, a special style. I’m not an elitist - I just don’t want to be so intermingled with everybody. It’s an easy, lazy, communal form of attire that I don’t want to be a part of. I never wanted to be affiliated with anything having to do with blue jeans.
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