Each year I usually compile a list of Fashion Don’ts on my blog, but this year I’m not going with a list. I’m going to speak about one Fashion Don’t for men that needs to end immediately! And here it is……..

To all of the men who are wearing the label of your suit on the sleeve of the suit coat…………..cut that shit out! This is not cute. You are supposed to remove that label before you wear the suit out in public.

And since I love you like a play cousin, I did a little research online to find out where this trend started in the first place.

The labeled sleeve was a trend a few years back in that segment of our society in which voguing was an important social activity. The contestants in voguing balls often wore merchandise fresh from the store, one way or another (purchased with the intention of returning it or shoplifted), and so sometimes labels or even security tags would be attached.

This, of course, added to the humor of the performance and the ironic fashion of the unremoved sleeve label. The concept caught on to the extent that some men were sending their jeans to the dry cleaners with pocket flashers still attached. The point of voguing is to be outlandish, outré and bad.

As printed on the Men.style.com website, February 2003.

So unless you are voguing in a competition, stop wearing the damn label on your suit coat/sports coat sleeve. You don’t realize how silly you look. It burns me up to see a good looking guy in a nice suit with the label on the sleeve of the coat. If your suit is nice, I’ll compliment you on it, but remove the label.