An X person has defined why Donald Trump wears shoulder pads. The previous president on some events has been pictured sporting what seems to be shoulder pads, and one such photograph has now gone viral, with individuals questioning why he wears them.
In a put up on X, Derek Man, a Canadian menswear author and commentator, defined that he doesn’t intend to physique disgrace anybody however solely to “focus on how anybody can costume for his or her physique sort in the event that they know a couple of methods.” He went on to say that it “shocked” him as a result of “Trump’s tailoring is finished in a approach to conceal his weight.” “His shoulders are comparatively slender in comparison with his waist, which provides his physique a considerably rectangular form,” Man stated of the previous president.
Man defined within the thread that “the platonic male silhouette in traditional Western aesthetic is a shoulder line that is broader than the waist, which creates a V-shaped determine.” He added that the previous president’s fits have an prolonged shoulder as a result of he doesn’t have this silhouette naturally.
“Nevertheless, you possibly can solely lengthen the shoulder a lot earlier than it begins to break down. Consider what would occur for those who prolonged the shoulder line on a t-shirt or costume shirt—it could simply flop on you. Because of this an prolonged shoulder wants a little bit of construction, as you see right here,” Man wrote.
He added, “The softer the shoulder, and the extra prolonged the road, the extra collapsing will occur over time. Rubinacci, a well-regarded bespoke tailoring home in Naples, makes use of a 1.5 ply shoulder pad. You’ll be able to see how the tip of Mariano’s shoulder is already beginning to dip.”
Man additionally defined {that a} shoulder that’s closely padded “builds *up* the shoulder,” which makes the silhouette seem “extra highly effective, authoritative, and formal.” However what isn’t nice a few closely padded shoulder, he stated, “is that artifice is revealed once you sit like this.”
Man wrote, “To me, Trump would profit from a softer shoulder, partly as a result of his pure shoulders are slender however sq.. The extra padding you add to this, the squarer the shoulder line. IMO, heavy padding is finest for individuals with very sloped shoulders, not sq. ones.”
“Nonetheless, this situation of padding and extension is one thing everybody has to determine for themselves when shopping for tailor-made jackets. Take note of the silhouette. Right here is similar man in two completely different coats. Proper has extension; left doesn’t. IMO, he seems higher on the fitting,” he added, sharing two photographs.
Man added that how a lot extension and padding is required is dependent upon an individual’s physique sort and the “vibe” they want to give off. He concluded, “I ought to add: whereas I believe Trump would profit from a softer shoulder, the extra you lengthen his shoulder line, the extra construction the jacket wants. Ralph Lauren likes a really prolonged shoulder and you’ll see how a lot padding he places into his Purple Label tailoring.”
Who’s Derek Man?
Man is a Canadian males’s style trade author and commentator, and is called ‘the menswear man’ on X. He grew to become fashionable after the acquisition of X by Elon Musk, following which his account was promoted by the location’s algorithmically curated ‘For You’ tab. Man is thought for having contributed items to The Washington Submit, Esquire, and The Nation.
Man was born to Vietnamese refugee dad and mom in Vancouver. Within the late Sixties, his household fled Saigon and crossed the border to Cambodia. They then went to Iran and Canada, and eventually settled within the US as unlawful immigrants. Whereas Man’s mom labored as a secretary, his father labored as a faculty janitor.
Man’s curiosity in style developed within the Nineties as he grew up round individuals concerned within the Lo Life subculture. He lives in San Francisco.
