The NY Times takes a look at fashion with the opinion that older men are now more in favor with advertisers"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/fashion/17MANLY.html?src=dayp

A sample:

On catwalks and in advertising campaigns the prevalent male image has long been that of skinny skate-rat, a juvenile with pipe-cleaner proportions. Designers as unalike as Raf Simons and Miuccia Prada developed so pronounced an appetite for the jailbait type that at some model castings in Milan and Paris the new faces often showed up chaperoned by Mom...You lose the T-shirt and the skateboard. You buy an interview suit and a package of Gillette Mach 3 blades. You grow up, in other words. Suddenly evidence of a new phase in the cycle of evolving masculine imagery was all over the catwalks in the runway season that recently ended. Just as suddenly it can be seen splashed across the covers of magazines, where the boys of recent memory have been transformed overnight into men

When they start sending guys down the runway on walkers, I'll know they're serious about my business.

When they start sending guys down the runway on walkers, I'll know they're serious about my business.

Just noticed this thread. Right there with you! On Halloween (Saturday actually) I went out to several parties, got all liquored up, then discovered how the cane which was part of my vampire costume was an invaluable aid to staying upright!

I may have just added a new essential to my wardrobe.

Just saw this now after Adam Smith replied. Personally, I am disappointed with Lucky's post. I saw the title and thought this would be a great homage to the fashion (lack of) sense of the great 90s boy band Boyz to Men, and then we get this nonsense about models. I'm going to start calling him Bait and Switch Lucky.