Thanks to ‘Love Story,’ New York is flooded with men biking in ties and backward Kangol hats. But is dressing like JFK Jr. really the key to finding yourself a CBK?
It’s the first over-60-degree day in New York, and the city’s women are ready to thaw out. Gathered in the shadow of the Washington Square Park arch are hundreds of 20-something women in their finestin New York.
Many among the crowd aren’t coy about what brought them out. “I came here looking for a husband,” said Hannah Engel, a 25-year-old wearing a, premiered last month, it seems like everyone is going Kennedy-core. If you’re suddenly seeing men on Citi Bikes wearing ties with jeans and backward hats, this is why. Across the city , men areJFK Jr.’s balance of old-money prep and sporty casual, which made him one of the biggest men’s style icons of the ’90s. It’s also sparking a resurgence in— during a walk around McCarren Park recently, I spotted two guys wearing them backward. On TikTok, the trend is straightforwardly associated with impressing women. “Dressing like JFK Jr. to find my Carolyn Bessette,” one man, a 27-year-old in advertising named Joshua Elliott, said in aIs all this Waspy peacocking hitting with women in the way men hope? Shelby Fauvel-Decrombecque, a 30-year-old biologist who posted a viralabout this phenomenon, told me it was shocking to see guys in Jr. drag in the wild. While at a friend’s birthday party on the Lower East Side last month, she said, “I thought I was hallucinating — all of a sudden, there were about five guys in Kangol hats.” Despite her initial shock, Fauvel-Decrombecque had to hand it to them for committing to such a statement piece. “It’s fun to see people taking a risk; I thought they looked great,” she said.Men who put in the effort to wear their finest dress shirts and medium-wash denim will be rewarded, from what I saw at the look-alike competition. While only eight men showed up to vie for the prize, hundreds of women were there to cheer them on. “It’s, like, 95 percent women with their phones out!” a 26-year-old named Annie Burns, who works at a perfume company, said as the JFK Jrs lined up for judging. “The ratio was worse than, like, the bars,” a 23-year-old named Jen told me. “I thought Jack Schlossberg might be here,” Gabrielle Naucke, a 24-year-old working in PR, said. A few, apparently expecting stiff competition, put in extra effort to appeal to the contestants: a woman on TikTok said she brought a basket of homemade Perhaps one sign of this dating tactic’s effectiveness: Many of the look-alikes told me they were taken and had help with picking out their competition outfits from the women in their lives. “Really, my girlfriend kind of just dressed me like a Ken doll,” a 24-year-old named Joseph Frierson, a master’s degree student at NYU, said. At least a couple of contestants, including the, were single — one, 24-year-old influencer Enny Radoncic, said he welcomed any prospective ladies sliding into his DMs. Still, the look-alike contest didn’t seem to be very successful as a pickup spot; if the unbalanced gender ratio wasn’t detrimental enough, things got interrupted by a “Make Iran Great Again” rally minutes after the competition ended.While the women I spoke to acknowledged that not everyone can pull off a Kangol hat , most of them were there for any man trying out something new with his clothes. “It’s good that men are like,,” said a 29-year-old named Fenella Theis, who works for an auction house. “A little bit of rizz — a little bit of putting effort in your wardrobe — is attractive to women.” Shelby, the woman who spotted the group of hatted men at the bar, wondered whether dressing this way has less to do with getting dates and more about the boost of confidence that comes with putting that shit on. “If you’re doing it in the pursuit of getting a girlfriend, then maybe it’s seen as a little bit cooler among your peers, like,,” she said. “Maybe it gives them the safe space to take a fashion risk.” At least one JFK Jr. Jr. insisted he’s in it for love. Joshua, the 27-year-old TikTokker with the Kangol hat, couldn’t make it to the competition, but he told me his video “hasn’t helped at all” with finding a date. “There’s been some nice comments and some slide-ins, but nothing serious,” he said. CBK wannabes, ball’s in your court.22 Best Sneakers in Every Single StyleThe Pisces new moon allows you to embark on a new, more generous chapter, while the start of Aries season encourages boldness and risk-taking.I want to narrate their lives with a light touch — and leave them room to grow — the way I wished my mother had.This week, a 28-year-old who works retail at a toy store gets ghosted and hooks up with her second choice.Star Says He Can’t Go to Oscars Motaz Malhees said Trump’s travel ban on Palestinians means he won’t be able to attend the awards ceremony.Leaked audio allegedly shows Melissa Nathan and Jed Wallace plotting to paint film producer Amanda Ghost as a “madame” for a Russian billionaire.A month before the season-three premiere, the show’s composer wrote in an Instagram post that he’s “DONE WITH THIS INDUSTRY.”Now’s the time to get 20 percent off linen sheets at Brooklinen, 40 percent off cardigans at Gap, 30 percent off flats at Everlane, and much more.*Sorry, there was a problem signing you up.
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