Happy Labor Day, everyone! After the barbeques and holiday sale shopping, it’s time to kick back with some tennis fashion fun. Or, if not fun — it is the men, after all — at least fashion frivolity.

I take my job as self-appointed fashion arbiter pretty seriously, so last Tuesday I traveled to Flushing Meadows to inspect this year’s getups first-hand, bringing along my trusty assistant/sidekick/brother David. I wouldn’t say David follows the sport too closely (Sample comment: “They don’t use line judges anymore?”) but he both buys and wears clothes, which appears to be the only real job requirement for these face-offs. I figured he’d be a fount of fashion savvy, particularly in regards to the men’s apparel.

His first contribution? Keeping Alexander Zverev off the slate of nominees:

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