Brooks Brothers, J. Crew, fashions of white America that are dying off - Business Insider

It was only a matter of time before the United States took Brooks Brothers to the guillotine.

There was once a time, two decades ago, when hundreds of protesters, including Trump associate Roger Stone, clad almost entirely in Brooks Brothers, descended on South Florida to protest the recount of a virtually tied presidential election.

Flash forward to the long hot summer of 2020, and protesters are in the streets again, but it's hard to find any of them wearing anything like Brooks Brothers.

But the decline of the traditional American fashion style perhaps also shows how long class tensions have been simmering.

Louis lawyers who became infamous for wielding guns at Black Lives Matter protesters, did so while wearing, in some sense, a uniform: Patrica was wearing a striped shirt with leggings that ended — wait for it — at the knee

Meanwhile, as also noted by Town & Country, far-right figures such as Richard Spencer have not only adopted Nazi hairstyles of the 1930s but a wardrobe featuring, as The Washington Post said, "three-piece Brooks Brothers suits, gold-coin cuff links, and $5,000 Swiss watches."

It was the fashion of white America, the fashion of the ideal American, the fashion of power.  

And they would do so against the backdrop of Melania Trump, probably wearing cashmere Ralph Lauren, revamping the White House's Rose Garden, just as Marie Antoinette meticulously tended to her gardens at Versailles before the sans-culottes bore down on the palace