The demoralising decline in the office dress code is long established. Nowadays, stockbrokers and estate agents are the only workers reliably in a suit and tie. For everyone else it’s chinos and knitwear – on a good day. But welcome news is afoot: among a growing legion of men, especially young men, there’s a revival of interest in dressing smartly.

Inevitably, the driving force is social media. Instagram accounts such as @askokeyig, @ignoreatyourperil, @tfchamberlin and many others are extolling the virtues of a sharp silhouette and the perils of collar gap. Most famously, ‘the menswear guy’ (@dieworkwear) has become something of an international name on X by blasting the (usually dire) sartorial standards of politicians and others.

He has plenty of targets. In the UK we went from Boris Johnson’s (deliberate) shambolic chic to Rishi Sunak’s appallingly tight suits, skinny ties and too-short trousers. Keir Starmer’s dour suits are often too long at the sleeve as if he’s ashamed of his cuff. The world of A-listers is no better. The inability of celebs to pull off a suit or dinner jacket never fails to astound me given looking the part is basically their job. Compared with our predecessors, we live in a sartorial wasteland.

But, online, the........

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