STEPHEN BISHOP Tailor-made choices could well be for darker colours and heavier fabrics
Post pandemic menswear The menswear industry shares the view that 2021 will be a good year, although grooms choices may be different because of seasonal conditions and style of weddings. Dominic Bliss reports
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dam McGovern and Eather Quinlan, an engaged couple from New Jersey, had been hoping for a big wedding this year, with plenty of friends and family in attendance. Then Covid-19 struck, scuppering their plans entirely. Unlike most couples, though, they weren’t willing to wait for the pandemic to pass before they got hitched. “We decided that, since we had no idea when the actual, traditional ceremony would take place, there was no time like the present,” said Quinlan. Their solution? An online marriage. McGovern applied to the Governor
of New Jersey and received special permission for him and his fiancée to be married by local officials via the video-conference platform Zoom. On 20 May 20, with the couple at their home and the town mayor a few miles away in his office, the knot was tied. Unusual times call for unusual solutions. Just like every other type of social gathering in the UK, weddings are having to adapt enormously to the pandemic. From 4 July in England, weddings with up to 30 guests were permitted. In Northern Ireland, outdoor weddings with up to ten people are allowed. Restrictions
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are tighter in Wales while now in Scotland, up to 15 people from five different households cn attend an outdoor wedding. What does all this mean for men’s wedding wear? Will post-pandemic weddings have an effect on the suits that grooms, best men and their ushers select for the big day? A move from lightweight fabrics Wedding logistics are sure to impact. Since venues were closed for all of spring and the start of summer, there will be extra demand for the rest of the year. With more autumn
