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The Madness of Cars (www.compactmag.com)
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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

My only problem with neck ties is that we have 5 torso off-shoots and we chose the one with the air hole to put the constricting knot around?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Because history.

    The way the first button-down shirts were made without collars - they were an entirely separate accoutrement.

    This just further proves the point - the better one understand historical antecedents, the less "nonsensical" current things are.

    We are crazy spoiled with modern fabrics - just the difference in my own lifetime is staggering. Jeans when I was a kid were stiff as cardboard - you had to break them in. Wrinkle free stuff didn't really work well until at least the 90's.

    The pants I wear today are amazingly comfortable and flexible compared to what there was even 40 years ago, let alone 140 years ago.

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