Article: Men's Apparel Show in Las Vegas Highlights Business Suits' Resurgence.

By Matthew Crowley, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 21--Khaki slacks-and-golf shirt casual at work? That's so last year. At this year's MAGIC show, business suits are back.

It seemed, for awhile, that jacket-tie-slacks ensembles would hang forever forgotten in the back of men's closets, pushed there by the rise of the dot-com corporate culture's slovenly chic. But now most dot-coms are long gone and some menswear representatives at this year's Men's Apparel Guild in California convention say the slumping economy is reviving interest in more formal office attire.

"The basics are back: suits, ties and white ...

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