2/ A second part of the confusion is that a modern viewer looks at a picture from a century ago, sees a jacket with lapels or perhaps a collar worn over a shirt, and calls it a "suit", as if the materials, cut, etc. were necessarily the same as a modern suit
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3/ Reactionaries in 2120: "people today dress like slobs. Look at how well people dressed in 2020. They wore formalwear jackets EVERYWHERE!"pic.twitter.com/NDHApTXObs
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4/ No, I'm disagreeing with it, and providing an explanation of exactly how I disagree with it. Why? Because I hate poorly argued "everything was better back when <misreading of the past>" internet threads. https://twitter.com/RevivedWerther/status/1346811575898959873 …
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5/ "by today's standards" The style of the day, in casual wear / work wear, was lapels and collars. The clothes were warm, coarsely woven, and rugged enough for work. The social significance at the time was not "formalwear". https://twitter.com/twkiter/status/1346811068115546113 …
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6/ In 1920 there was a certain melange of styles, and a few random bits in that melange became coded as signifying "formal" 30-50 years later ... and people who are only familiar w that no misread old pictures, using current symbolism. https://twitter.com/twkiter/status/1346811068115546113 …
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7/ Imagine that some random accouterment of today's clothing, maybe sneakers, change and mutate over the next century, both in form and in significance. Perhaps in 2120 sneakers are made of silk and carbon nanotubes and signal "polytheism". So in 2120 folks look back >>>
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8/ At today's pictures and say "wow, back in the old days EVERYONE was a polytheist, and they spared no expense to demonstrate it". That would be derp. ...in the same way that this thread is.
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9/ I did not address his point about male touching, and do not care about it. I Have No Opinion, and you can't make me.https://twitter.com/blightersort/status/1346812138137022466 …
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10/ This is an excellent point, and another unstated assumption smuggled in to interpreting the past. If someone has 2 suits of clothes, you can bet that they will both be very multipurpose.https://twitter.com/drivenbyart/status/1346812600089251841 …
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11/ interesting detail https://twitter.com/CultWineGrinch/status/1346812761506983939 …
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12/ Initial thread said "20s and 30s" and I truncated to "20s" bc short tweets. I meant both decades, tho. Yes, agree re Browning, HOWEVER, me being me, before I started this thread I googled info on historical photo prices http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/1_early/1_early_photography_-_prices_charged.htm …https://twitter.com/Cary_Bleasdale/status/1346812874790985729 …
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15/ Specifically, the "cheap" camera in 1930s, the Brownie, cost something like 1.5 weeks AVERAGE wage http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/1_early/1_early_photography_-_prices_charged.htm … In the early-1930s, Kodak were charging £2 10s 0d for their basic model, a No 2 Brownie That equates to about £350 in 2009, allowing for inflation.
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16/ So for a working poor person, that might be 3 weeks' wages. How many blue collar, lower middle class / upper middle class people in 1930, do you think, worked for 4 months, saved ALL the discretionary income after rent and food, and blew it on one camera ?
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17/ ...and then worked for another month to save money for one roll of film and 16 prints?
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18/ meh when I link to a fairly comprehensive source, where the guy has clearly done a deep dive and has collected hard numbers, that's not ABSOLUTE proof ... but it has a lot more evidentiary weight than "but the popular myth is ____"https://twitter.com/Cary_Bleasdale/status/1346817708801843200 …
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20/ I'm not engaging in nihlism. I'm disagreeing with a bad argument, and providing data. https://twitter.com/twkiter/status/1346819265110962178 …
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