I love the print, but the proportions seem wrong. I like the idea, but it feels a little joyless. There’s something very unresolved about the crotch on those pants, and they don’t feel elevated.

Did we all talk like this before “Project Runway”? Maybe. But I barely remember looking at the Chrysler Building and not thinking of Jay McCarroll’s dress from Season 1. I can’t hear the name “Andre” without also hearing Santino Rice imitating Tim Gunn sighing “What happened to Andre?” (He’s our little lamb, you guys.) I don’t think I say “fierce” anymore, but that’s only because I said it enough times post-Christian Siriano’s season that the well ran dry. I have owned multiple capes.

“Project Runway” was a cable darling and then a cable staple and then an “is that still on?” But now it has also spawned two direct descendants, Netflix’s “Next In Fashion,” which came out Jan. 29 and Amazon’s “Making the Cut,” which premieres Friday — and stars Heidi Klum and Gunn. And the original itself is still chugging along; it crowned its Season 18 winner earlier this month.

These are Darwin’s finches for reality contest shows, adapting to various conditions and also demonstrating what can be exploited within each environment. Or what can’t.