Menswear as women’s wear isn’t exactly new on the fashion circuit, it fact it is becoming somewhat of a veteran in the fashion world. Countless designers have dappled in the androgyny of using menswear inspired pieces to add structure and class to a basic women’s suit. The first designer who really started this trend was a now famous, Coco Chanel, who first decided that women should wear pants. Why not? If men can handle having their legs separated by two tubes of fabric and somehow go on living, why should women not be given the same chance.
    Following Chanel countless designers have followed suit- excusing the pun. One of the most famous followers was the late great, Yves Saint Laurent. Le Smoking has been a trend that has been re-created season after season. Veterans of the menswear trend often retain a certain thread of masculinity throughout many of their future collections, for example YSL’s fall 2008 collection displays many architectural lines and strong colors that reflect the masculinity that was originally associated with Le Smoking.
    This fall menswear is hotter then ever. Even transitioning into the fall weather, while it is still scorching out, there are still menswear inspired pieces that can keep you chic while still preventing you from melting in a head to toe wool get up. Pieces such as the increasingly popular vest, work perfectly to pull together a look while still in keeping with the sunny weather. Pairing a vest or a cute blazer with a skirt or great pair of tailored pants, makes it so much easier for you to sit behind a desk with the air conditioning blasting while having to look out upon a flawlessly sunny and warm day. Designers are making it more and more accessible for everyday people to have a sensible work look while still being able to not stick out on the bus still be the same person in both your personal and professional lives.
    Menswear is a trend that will keep reoccurring in the future and will grow and change to reflect current societal trends. The evolution of women into pants has been a long time coming; why should women have to wear a skirt and have their thighs rub together, when men who genetically do not carry weight in their thighs, get to wear pants? The irony is that pants would have been way more helpful for women in the times before pants, because now a days women strive to be stick thin and model-esq, and if they achieve such a goal their thighs would have at least a good two inches between their thighs.