Michael jordan im back chicago tribune9/24/2023 ![]() ![]() “It’s really pretty fascinating, but if you were around the NBA 15 years ago those guys dressed very poorly,” he explains, crediting Jordan for the tangible shift in player style, even calling it “the Michael Jordan effect.” “He really started coiffing himself so well and he did it in a high-class way that was really appealing to other athletes,” he adds. In fact, Hatfield argues they were actually “very poorly” dressed. “He would modify them not only to fit, but he would also play with the look a little bit and he would take an Armani suit and restructure so it would drape differently.” It was Jordan’s finesse at wearing a suit, his aforementioned attention to detail like drapery and proportion and early advocacy of tailoring, that struck me so.īasketball’s BJ era (before Jordan) was a time when players didn’t dress up. “What Michael did, he came in and started wearing these beautiful Italian suits but they were modified,” Tinker Hatfield, the creative director for product design at Nike and the man responsible for developing the Air Jordan shoe, told the Chicago Tribune in 1999. But it wasn’t merely the fact that he owned and loved suits, but the way he wore them, his approach to tailoring. ![]() I have anywhere from 100 to 150,” he told GQ in an interview in the 90s. Watching the series, his suits – even from the female gaze – are simply magnificent. One of his signatures, the oversized power suit, today exists as one of the most coveted items to own, with even the most intrinsically feminine designers adding boxy, boyish suiting to their repertoire. In the past, Jordan has been derided for his “terrible style” – the gargantuan suits, the single gold hoop earring, the berets – but in today’s cultural zeitgeist, where the 90s unequivocally marshals modern fashion, Jordan’s “terrible style” is not so terrible after all. While my housemates audibly swoon at Jordan’s basketball prowess – his nonpareil ability, his artistry, his flight – I sit there every Monday night swooning (audibly, also) at his style. Of course, I know the basics: slam dunks and set shots and subs, even flagrant fouls, and I of course know the GOAT, but I didn’t really know how great Michael Jordan’s style was. ![]() But I’ve never been a big basketball fan. Don’t let the Bottega and blow-wave fool you, I live and breath AFL, I love tennis, and am glued to the screen when the World Cup is on. Sure, I live with two sport-obsessed males, but I am actually a huge sports fan, too. Dropping in weekly two-episode installments, it’s quickly replaced ‘Tiger King’ as our iso compulsion and we collectively wait every Monday night for the next two to arrive. ‘The Last Dance,’ the new ESPN / Netflix docuseries which charts the rise of the Chicago Bulls dynasty, is my household’s current binge. So how did I land upon every man’s (and sport fan’s) wet dream as my style icon? Netflix, of course. There’s of course the case of gender, too, but in this day and age such an argument is quickly rebuffed as non-binary fashion rules (and rightly so). So to have Michael Jordan as my current style muse seems slightly strange. I – while I like to consider myself Greek goddess-y – am in reality pint-sized, puny and at the the moment, a little pudgy (thanks to isolation-induced baking). He was physically brutish, burly, beefy and buff. Considering our very palpable physical differences, it may come as a surprise to you that I want to dress like Michael Jordan. I didn’t play 15 seasons in the NBA, win six championships with the Chicago Bulls, six Finals MVPs, or am considered the greatest basketball player of all time, but, I really want to dress like him. I have hips, a bit of a booty and would sit on the “petite” side of things. I am a 5′ 4″ (and a half) Caucasian woman.
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