Loose Talk
April, 1978
As you already know from reading the fashion pages of Playboy each month, there's a European-inspired trend afoot to looser, more flowing male garb. This shift to fuller styles wasn't lost on Al Arden, an enterprising young American importer of European menswear. As so often happens to people in this line of work, Arden was bitten by the designer bug. He chose to scratch the ensuing itch by creating his own line of tunic-type tops and casual slacks. Arden's label, Forward Gear, aptly sums up the...
