Jess Cartner-Morley has been the Guardian’s fashion editor since 2000. She is online now answering your questions from tips for the well-dressed man to trouser fasteningsSign in or create your Guardian account to ask a question and join the discussionpaulrennie asks: Can the proper suit ever come back?Jess:I can’t see this happening in the medium term. The overarching trend for decades has been the decline of men’s tailoring as a proportion of menswear sold. Hence why every designer got into sportswear and streetwear. Clothes have got more casual and more comfortable and most of us like it that way. In fact I was at the weekend I was walking through a back-to-school kids’ uniform section in a store and wondering how long it will be till schools ditch the matching trousers and blazers? It seems to me kind of wild that children are dressed more formally for school than their parents are for the office?Appreciate you! That’s so nice of you to say. I think all fashion journalists are current affairs journalists at heart. Fashion is a live conversation about how it feels to live in the world at this moment, that’s why I have loved writing about it for so long. Continue reading...