stayed up til 2am reading about men's formalwear last night and mad white tie is basically extinct
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of course by now the suit is supplanted in a lot of industries first by "business casual" and more recently by the afaik yet-unnamed jeans/tshirt/hoodie uniform
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and what by the 1880s was "full dress" (now "white tie") started as a sort of dressing up of the country gentlemen and sans-culottes outfits
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started by a middle-class englishman trying to be fashionable in high society but lacking the resources and social standing to emulate proper court dress
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I was gonna keep going but this is getting into blog post territory but basically blame democracy imo
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the natural trajectory for an aristocracy is from rude conquerors to more refined and ornate in manners, clothing, etc
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w/ positions secured by birth not might, upper class grows idle and decadent, they serve as a thing to aspire to, and their increasing extravagance sets the tone for those below
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whereas increasing informality really starts with the 18th century and you can pick dozens of examples of clothing changes that serve to flatten hierarchy, general trend toward the low
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I might write this up as a longer thing later if only because the origins of the subtle style notes on menswear are really interesting
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i have this depressing image now of the future where someone is wearing tshirt and jeans and someone else goes "well, are we going to an interview today or what, fancy pants"
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"awww, damn it, that restaurant requires a t-shirt? can we just go to The Feed Trough again so I can keep my crust of matted hair and filth on?"
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i'm thinking that the future will involve spikes and bandoliers and also forcefields for skin protection and stuff
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well, sure, for the raider class, but they won't want their slaves to be armed
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I genuinely appreciate the dedicated punks because keeping together a purple mohawk, a riveted jacket, and boots, with an assortment of metal in your face, is more effort into maintaining a look than most people put into their entire life.
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precisely; I used to have very well-maintained purple hair - it was a lot of maintenance and mostly happened because I was bartering division of rent against free work from my hairstylist roommate
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