imo it's that while aesthetics are important, sacrificing majority of utility to achieve a particular form is inherently feminine
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Hm? 70s and 80s menswear seemed pretty cool (although trad-menswear like suits have indeed been on a decline). I blame massive international supply chains/globalization for vastly increasing the uniqlo-bespoke price differential...
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one of my to-do writing things is to tie this together with the collapse of high art but I don't have a very good thrust yet
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but basically court dress in monarchies was about ornamentation and status-differentiation, notably codified in sumptuary laws defining who could wear what colors/fabrics
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this is the classic decadence pattern, germanic kingships had very simple warrior dress and the trend from like the 12th to 18th centuries was toward extravagance
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but with the beginning of evening dress in the regency era to the standardization of white tie in the victorian the trend reversed, toward uniformity and flattening of hierarchy
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since then casualwear has gone semi-formal, then formal, then relegated to period wear. tailcoats were for horseback riding, the dinner jacket was not something you allowed a woman to see you in
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and of course the business suit was once the lounge suit. in this way the path from business casual to smart casual to the as-yet unnamed tech worker tshirt and hoodie uniform...
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...is just the logical next step in a trend that has been going for some time
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My suit nerd room mate has been known to say similar things tbh
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