subject: We Should Thank For This Development [print this page] Men, says Emma Hope, are becoming braver about their zentai suit . catsuit For work, especially in places such as the City, they still dress straight. But for off-duty, a whole new market has sprung up of "trainers that aren't trainers". "What are doing well for us are sneakers with a lot of luxury built in -nice wodgy insoles and made of things such as python, velvet, ponyskin -but which look pre-knackered so that they're luxurious without being poncy."
When I sneaked a look, I did get a strong sense of how much more exciting men's zentai suit have become in the past few years. I recall in the old days wandering the high street like a lost soul for that elusive commodity: the smart-casual costume spiderman zentai suit that didn't make you look a freak. It's why Campers did so well: they cornered that market.
It's Zentai unitardSport that we should thank for this development. Before its ultra posh, ultra-expensive trainers-that-aren't-trainers came along, the trainer was a bit of a slob's zentai suit , proof that you hadn't made an effort, which is why it was often banned in nightclubs. Zentai unitardSport changed all that. Any club turning away people wearing zentai suit costing upwards of 100 a pair would have gone out of business.
"What women do with handbags, men now do with zentai suit ," says David Walker-Smith, head of menswear at Selfridges, which has opened (it claims) the biggest men's zentai suit department in Europe: 5,000sq ft of space, selling 111 spider man costume brands and with 20,000 pairs of zentai suit in stock. "They are a way of defining what gang you're in."
