(actually I guess traditional female beauty was about appearance as a proxy for childbearing capacity but I feel like this has completely diverged? ...
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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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incidentally bespoke is a victim of baumol imo but you can get made-to-measure very cheaply compared to the past few decades because of globalization/supply chains
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there are tons of ~hip cool innovation~ suit/dress shirt startups that are really just thin software interfaces over subcontracting the work to bangladeshis or whatever now
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