Two Tone Tunic

We decided to do a trend based entirely on the smooth style of Kanye West, the Two Tone Tunic.  While you may find other men wearing such items - where the material goes almost down to your knees but you wear trousers to ensure it isn't a skirt - they all look terrible. We put this down to many an overweight male adorning the so called muumuu (like Homer when he got even bigger), which has many similarities to the tunic, but used solely for comfort and breathability whereas a real tunic provides both style and sophistication. Our aim was to find some items that wouldn't clump us in the same deplorable group, but instead look wondrous as shown below:

I guess if Jesus wore a tunic, why shouldn't Kanye!!!

Now in keeping with the Summer/Autumn theme that we are testing here at TTC, the tunic falls right into our remit. The length provides the warmth that may be required on an Autumnal evening, the colourful mixing gives a Summertime vibe.

Buying Experience
This proved tricky.  Unfortunately our favourite Cardiff boutiques weren't stocking any tunics as they were all still in London and Milan, so instead we had to turn to Primark and other such places to put together a suitable item of our own.  Yes, Trend The Consequences has branched into garment creation.

A sartorial masterpiece

Practicality
Its seems more and more common that as we walk down the highstreet, men are wearing jeans that are ill sized. We here at TTC know that skinny jeans are quite in at the moment, however this is not what we are witness to most of the time. A skinny pair of jeans would still come up around the waist, but what is becoming obvious is that men are not buying the correct waist size jeans with a skinny fit, but going for many sizes too short.

This is apparent as most of these people have the waist of the jeans hanging well below the waistline of their underpants. We have put this down to the type of person sporting these jeans, and my reasoning is thus; basically every person that you see wearing this style is usually a hipster douchebag that most likely doesn't work, as that would obviously be helping "the man", so attempts to sell his pathetic hemp clothing on the streets of camden. This means that they don't have sufficient funds to purchase adult clothing, so buy child jeans as they aren't subject to V.A.T! This is why their leg clothing choices end up both skinny and not able to be pulled up to the correct height.

Alright mate, you may think you're all that, but sell that smartphone and get some clothes that fit!

The big issue is that this is now becoming more mainstream as celebs, such as the Beiber, start taking the style on. Now the common man may feel as though he wants in, but is less enthused about getting his posterior out (reasonably so). The tunic however can bridge the gap, with the wearer being able to adorn the low waisted jeans, but covering the underwear with a colourful tunic. Win bloody win!

Reaction
During the evening, it seemed positive vibes were coming our way, but without any actual praise being spoken. Although one point during the evening, we met a nice Irishman (having clearly been enjoying the black stuff) who was very favourable to the two tone tunic. He seemed fond of the length, and the colours that were provided. This was until he found out that we had put the tunic together ourselves, and that it was not simply a shop bought item. It was unclear where his true distress lied, as his anger made his diction even harder to grasp. However we put it down to his pure fondness of capitalism and not because of the tunic's method of creation.

Verdict
The Two Tone Tunic is a trend that tests the character of a male fashion blogger.  People will say you are wearing a skirt or that no man needs two colours arranged in parallel on their top, these are things that could well turn you back to simple scoop neck t-shirts.  But give the tunic a chance and you will open your world up to a choice of two colours (or more?), interesting folk and a chance to be like Riccardo Tisci for one scintillating night!