In the 1980s, the designers of men’s suits radically simplified the style – notably with an unbuttoned jacket, devoid of the waistcoat; a slimmer, trimmer silhouette, often with noticeable shaping on the jacket; and a lower rise in the trousers of the men’s suit.
As the three-piece suit went out of fashion, the two-piece single- or double-breasted men’s suit came to dominate. In particular there was a surge in the popularity of the double-breasted suit with indented lapels, alongside the so-called New Wave Style with a narrow lapel. Trousers were slim-legged and tapered.