is that actually true though? for lack of a better word, "micro-fashion", making very small changes to mandatory uniform, is definitely a thing isn't it?
fashion as illustration of social mobility (or the important, civilization-founding illusion of it)pic.twitter.com/TQsEviSuJu
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Also consider the fashion systems of French and Russian monarchies, the borrowing of style from military uniform to civvie dress and vice versa, and also influence different militaries had on each other in terms of uniform.
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Hmm. My initial reaction was to disagree re caste but I think the crazy sari competition in India is more around signaling price than fashion so this could be right. The amount of gold woven into the silk pops more than any differences in design or wearing style.
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you’re saying those aristocratic feudal robes weren’t “fashion”?
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Neal Stephenson thinks that "fashion" as we understand it was invented by Colbert for Louis XIV to bankrupt his nobles with so of course i accept Stephenson's authority on the matter
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Eh? Most monarchies and French and Russian monarchies particularly had extremely elaborate systems of fashion
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