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The Evolution of Men’s Fashion with 'The Menswear Guy'

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KQED

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6656 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Derek Guy – known online as “the menswear guy” – runs the popular social media account “Dieworkwear.” Guy’s recent piece for Bloomberg Businessweek looks at what he calls a new wave of hypercurated masculinity appropriated by MAGA influencers that’s “a backlash against a cultural landscape shaped by gender fluidity and body positivity.” We talk to Guy about how men’s fashion can tell a different story and why it’s so challenging for men to figure out how to dress. Guests: Derek Guy, menswear writer, creator of the blog "Dieworkwear" - editor for the website Put This On Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Coming up on forum, we talk men's fashion with Derek Guy, known as the menswear guy,

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or by his social media handle, dye workwear.

1:12.4

Guy writes in Bloomberg Businessweek that lately, new wave of hyperc curated masculinity appropriated by MAGA influencers has been

1:18.5

taking hold, a quote, backlash against a cultural landscape shaped by gender fluidity and

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body positivity. Listeners, have you felt like you've noticed this?

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Guy joins us to talk about how men's fashion can tell a different story.

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