Thank God It's Henry Allen Friday

The Town Style Forgot

It's our very own Washington, where women wear "neutral" and men dress like Secret Service agents.

By Henry Allen

September 14, 1986

The Washington Post

This is the City of Drab. This is the town where the clothes that fit are the clothes that fit in, where you want to look right, not good; a town where the men look like Secret Service agents and the women have to hide their fur coats from envious eyes back home, lest Mr. and Mrs. Front Porch U.S.A. slouch off to the ballot box and vote them out of office.

Here's how bad it gets.

"Loafers?" asks a partner in a Connecticut Avenue law firm, a tic of alarm rippling across his forehead like wind across a lawn. He is sitting…