No pleats for me please. Always felt like it made me look like I was wearing pants to big at the waist and I cinched my belt tight to keep them up causing the pleats.
No thanks. If I'm spending coin on a suit, I want it to be as independent of trend as possible. So I don't own any "skinny" suits and I won't own pleats or something with giant lapels either.
I'm a 38x30. Pleats equal a horrible look for me.
I suspect that, the last 100 years taken as a sample size, pleats spend as much time "in" as flat-fronts. It's the extremes that ought to be avoided.
I just can't imagine how adding material and bulk to the midsection can be slimming in any way.
I'm waiting for parachute pants to come back