See good buddy that’s why you buy yourself thrift.
I wear suits that cost me 20 bucks that look better than what the president wears. Not that that’s a high bar, but a worthy comparison.
Well you’re probably younger and more fit and wearing stuff that’s five years out of date instead of thirty five.
Try it, you get lots of shit. I’d know.
Pantaloons with tights aren’t completely dead, just shorts with long socks need to up their sock game
Tbh men like me are a step away from becoming cats and I would love to just be a cat. Every step we do that progresses men becoming cats is fine for me.
I don’t want it to be like it is, but it do
The “now” person is a peasant, not man. Put some eyeliner on, at least!
My socks are not boring, excuse me!
excuse me!
Apology accepted
Remember, the Roman’s thought pants were for the effeminate easterners.
that’s why women are attracted to men in uniforms
Pretty sure only aristocrats dressed like that.
Like all things it started with them and then gained popularity through all social classes.
And wasn’t the makeup to hide chlamydia / syphilis etc?
The powdered wife served the same purpose.
Don’t forget the wig for down under, the merkin!
Sure and perume was becase you didn’t bathe … And yet we still use both
I think it’s also for the opposite? I mean, the white face, rosy cheeks and red lips were popularized due to the romantization of tuberculosis. The guy on the left could literally have tuberculosis looking at his face.
One of the many sources: https://historycollection.com/tuberculosis-became-the-victorian-standard-of-beauty/
Thanks for the lovely rabbit hole to fall into
You’ve obviously not been to a goth club recently ;)
There is absofukinglutely nothing stopping you from dressing like that, only yourself.
They might try to stop you.
Yeeeesshhhhhhh
As the saying goes, “no gentleman was dressed without his sword”
Unfortunately others have flintlocks
They will fail to stop you.
society, jobs, and weather?
Those are bourgeois categories
Don’t let the prospect of beheading get on the way of your dreams!
Oh look, a clown.
That there is a dandy
The title is implicitly responding to someone who thinks, “fashion is an important part of masculinity, and it’s immutable,” but has nothing to say to someone who thinks, “fashion is an important part of masculinity and can change.”
Mark Zuckerberg, who dresses pretty much like the guy on the right, then adds a watch worth $100k to indicate his status.
The pants shirts an hoodies the ultra wealthy wear are also often obscenely overpriced versions of the normal clothes. Like Luis Vuitton’s plain tshirt, with a same color embossed logo on the front, for 700$. Or [this](Marble Gray Oversized Cashmere T-shirt | PRADA https://www.prada.com/us/en/p/oversized-cashmere-t-shirt/UMF019_169C_F0K44_S_OOO?s_kwcid=AL!8549!3!!!!x!!&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=15775671799) by Prada for 2500$ (its casmere)
I legitimately do not understand
I think it’s silly and wasteful, but I don’t think it’s difficult to understand. Modern aristocrats have so much money that the cost doesn’t matter at all, and they probably get it for free in the hope that they’d be seen wearing it by all the wannabes who can afford it.
But even if they pay full price and pick it for some dumb reason like the color or because it’s soft, with the average net worth growth these people see in a month or year, any time spent buying the thing would be far more valuable (or they would passively make far more money) than the cost of the shirt.
But silly things like transactions and opening packages of free overpriced fashion are for underlings to handle anyway.
Also did you see King Louis XIV shoes? Dude was flair.
Bring back snuff. It was 14th century Zyn.
