Pretty sure only aristocrats dressed like that.
And wasn’t the makeup to hide chlamydia / syphilis etc?
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
The powdered wig served the same purpose.
Don’t forget the wig for down under, the merkin!
Fam be jerkin for that Merkin.
Like all things it started with them and then gained popularity through all social classes.
and then the french revolution happened…
There is absofukinglutely nothing stopping you from dressing like that, only yourself.
They might try to stop you.
As the saying goes, “no gentleman was dressed without his sword”
Unfortunately others have flintlocks
Yeeeesshhhhhhh
They will fail to stop you.
society, jobs, and weather?
Don’t let the prospect of beheading get on the way of your dreams!
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 one 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.
Ah yes, the Great Male Renunciation of fashion
Fashion??? In this economy?!
If I could suit up like in games that actually have good clothing options and don’t punish you for just getting every option I totally would, but for better or worse I settle for tattered hand me downs from my uncle that I have been wearing since I was 7 or so. And some hand me ups from my younger siblings that became bigger than me as a top up to the supply.
Idk what you’re talking about, used clothing is both the most affordable and the gaudiest. I love it.
That’s was really interesting
Flügel asserted that men “abandoned their claim to be considered beautiful” and “henceforth aimed at being only useful”.
Meanwhile, still waiting on 99% of men (or all humans, really) to start being useful.
I’ll give you a full rebuttal as soon as I’m done reaching the top shelf and unscrewing the lid of the pickle jar.
Rich cunts then:
Rich cunts now:
Poor cunts then:
Poor cunts now:
Or to put it another way, nothing has changed. The upper classes still dress like wankers who sniff their own farts, and the lower classes still dress with whatever they can afford that works for them.
Dude on the left pulls it off, dude on the right does not, imo.
Is it the wooden teeth?
This is an absolutely hilarious episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Worth a watch! :D
Noble vs peasant.
I’m more of a summer/spring in my color scheme
Ladies, What’s stopping you from dressing like this
My penis would dangle out the bottom of the skirt.
Like a real Scotsman.
This is the way.
being a shower must suck
I’m a bear built, and even though I just bought a skirt. I’ll never look cute like that,
Don’t under estimate the power of the combo of tiny skirt thicc thighs.
And you know what!
I’m a cis male, and I’m not even thinking this is any form of gender bending. I’m wearing them because when I wear them, they are manly.
I’m not against blurring gender lines, it just not my style. I just hate that make fashion is basically funeralwear.
When I die I want everyone to attend in the most colorful and creative outfits, need to make a will to ask people wearing a traditional suit to fuck off.
That’s my problem with male fashion too. It’s all so bland and boring.
Women’s fashion: colorful, cute looking.
Men’s fashion: dark, drab, all the same.
I don’t have breasts like that
Not with that attitude!
Having a career. At home though, nothing :3
…hormones and time, mostly: i haven’t been able to pull off that look for thirty years and trust me when i say that you wouldn’t want to see me try…
Maybe we have grown out as a society of that childish one-upping each other with made up rules?
Have you met society? Society is a petty bitch!
Please tell me there’s a /s in there somewhere.
wasn’t the make up meant to hide the lesions and wigs to hide the peeling scalp and hair loss?
Those lesions and hair loss were usually caused by syphilis which was considered wildly scandalous at the time.
yhea but that still doesn’t explain the colourful detailed outfits.
Who’s got boring socks? Not me, sir. 😤
Socks with sandals
Oh no
Don’t you ever insinuate i have boring socks ever again.
Some people do loud shirts, I do loud socks.
how long does it take for your toenails to dig though them?
you might call that boring.
Rich guys wearing really dour clothes is actually a relatively recent phenomenon in history. Up to the French Revolution the aristocrats were peacocked up to the max; maybe it was fear of the guillotine that saw their successors going around in North Face jackets.
It is still happening, just more metaphorically, so less people can catch it.
Try it, you get lots of shit. I’d know.
The “now” person is a peasant, not man. Put some eyeliner on, at least!
