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It has a name: the Great Male Renunciation.
Great Male Renunciation. A reaction to the French revolution. How style for men was displayed no longer through expense of colors or keeping up with changing trends. Instead that wealth was shown by knowing the right materials to look like any common man but to those in the know be showing your class.
This comm is always reminding me of Behind the Bastards. The whole suit and tie thing had to come from somewhere didn't it?
Part One: Beau Brummell: The First Celebrity and Inventor of the Suit and Tie
Part Two: Beau Brummell: The First Celebrity and Inventor of the Suit and Tie
That 1948 looks pretty damn good too though.
Easy access to antibiotic-laden meat has made us too huge to fit in nice clothes.
What, should we bring back the macaroni hairstyle?
I prefer either of these for parties over the casual men outfits today.
but have you considered
comfortable
Yes and as an autist i consider that the most important metric, no one should feel pressured to wear something uncomfortable, that said dressing in personally liked style itself can be a comfort of itself
A well cut suite is really comfortable. I think many complaints about uncomfortable suits are from people who only know cheap plastic suites.

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