In recent years, lace has appeared on the menswear runways for Burberry, Moschino, Saint Laurent, Versace, and other labels. Even mainstream stores, including Walmart and Amazon, now sell lace shirts and accessories for men.
Once consigned to bridal wear and women’s lingerie, lace is being embraced by a new generation, particularly younger men, who are drawn to the fabric’s history and craftsmanship, and by more relaxed attitudes about gender-fluid clothing.
With the French Revolution came a repudiation of frippery. Menswear became fitted and monochromatic, and remains that way more than 200 years later, while lace returned to women’s fashion and became more democratic with the improvement of machine-made textiles. “I think this literal loosening of the fabrics was associated with the loosening of the morals,” Wilcox said.Lace also fits into a broader shift toward gender-fluid fashion, with younger consumers blurring the lines between what was traditionally considered male and female. “Everything is softer, more fluid, more decorative,” Wilcox said.
“It’s not about masculine or feminine,” Gnagy said. “Anybody with any presenting gender can wear that outfit. That’s the essence of what unisex ought to be.”
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