Mankle Image Crisis
Howard Jacobson thinks the current focus of male fashion on the ankle region or 'mankle', revealed beneath skimpy suit trousers, shows men are suffering from a self-image crisis.
Howard Jacobson thinks the current focus of male fashion on the ankle region or "mankle", revealed by the trousers of skimpily cut suits, shows men are suffering from a self-image crisis.
"It would be a brave person who argued that what we wear counts for more than what we say, but in an image-driven culture our attention is always liable to drift away from words, however well chosen, to tailoring."
Producer: Sheila Cook.
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A Point of View: Why don't men's trousers cover their ankles any more?
Trousers which don't cover the ankles, suits which feel too small - the novelist Howard Jacobson reads the sartorial runes and sees in them a crisis of masculinity.
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Howard Jacobson |
| Producer | Sheila Cook |
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- Fri 3 Apr 2015 20:50Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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