23-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- Wall Street Journal
Step Aside, Cary Grant and Steve McQueen. Our Hunt for a New Men's Style Icon.
If I had a nickel for every time a Wall Street Journal reader cited Cary Grant as a men's style inspiration, I would have long ago fled my 'cozy' apartment and the communal washing machine that only works when you kick it three times and whisper the Lord's Prayer.
'Pretty sure Cary Grant wouldn't carry one,' a reader commented on a recent article about large bags. In response to a piece on grungy fashion, another quipped, 'Cary Grant rolls in his grave.' My eyes rolled in their sockets behind a pair of flimsy, modern glasses Grant would have loathed.
