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    ‘Dad Style’ Is Now in Fashion. Yes, Even the Jeans

    Once ridiculed, ‘dad style’ was all over the runways for spring, but before you dust off those saggy khakis with a triumphant ‘I told you so,’ consider our guide to this tricky trend

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    BALENCIAGA DIDN’T even need the kids. The brand’s spring 2018 fashion show, held last June in the verdant Bois de Boulogne park in Paris, featured a parade of models in oversize color-striped windbreakers, pale jeans similar to those that made Barack Obama dad-in-chief and bloated running shoes in the style of podiatrist-approved Asics. The actual children the male models carried were almost overkill: The 99-year-old brand was clearly celebrating that most unlikely of style icons, the dad.

    Balenciaga’s father-fest was the...