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Are you really interested in what men wear? Do you rifle hungrily through your Sunday paper to extract the semi-annual color supplement on men's style? Does an outfit in the window of Bergdorf's men's store ever stop you in your tracks like the flashback from a dream? Does Bergdorf's men's store have windows? I don't recall. Most wondrous clothes that make men ineffably poetic figures are on the walls of the Met or in news footage from Afghanistan. Since the nineteenth century, when the Western ruling class adopted the uniform of a dark, tailored suit worn with a shirt and tie, men's fashion (not to put too fine a point on so obvious a truth) has been militantly prosaic. ...