NEWSFLASH: EUROPEAN MEN DRESS BETTER THAN AMERICAN MEN.

I’m sorry if this is the first time you’re hearing this, but though we lead the world in GDP, adult-onset diabetes, and bands with Dave Grohl, we’re not exactly known for bein gthe snazziest, or even jazziest, of dressers. And in case you’ve been living in your doomsday-prepper cave for the last century, the Italians are absolutely wiping the floor with us in that department.

This brings us to Pitti Uomo, the twice-yearly fashion fair held in Florence, Italy that began in 1972 to showcase men’s fashion, which has since become the place fo peacocking men to show their Sprezzatura to an international audience and gives us the most stylish and most avant-garde looks in the world of men’s style.

So, as bizarre as some of them may be, we wanted to share with your the sights, the outfits, the (yes) hats of this year’s Summer edition of Pitti Uomo for us Yanks to take a gander at and maybe let some of their inspiration seep in by osmosis. Maybe in fifty years, we’ll be a nation of soccer-loving, universal healthcare-having stylish men who have our mistresses over for dinner with the wife. Enjoy.

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