WHILE PACKING FOR MY biannual transatlantic trip to attend the Spring 2019 men’s fashion shows in Europe (see my reports from Florence and Milan), I almost, almost slipped a pair of shorts into my suitcase. But then I thought: No.
Shorts, even the neat olive green pair I had picked out, seemed too informal and too revealing to fly in the finicky atmosphere of Men’s Fashion Week. My fears were not unfounded: Jesse Hudnutt, a men’s buying consultant who jets to Europe each season for the shows, was barred from entering a Milan...