Modern Male Fashion and its consequences
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william_kent
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I think the formation of a fashion police force would be essential in the dystopia you are proposing - prohibition ( aka "taking away options" ) will only result in an underground economy trading in grey trackie bottoms, polyester trouser suits, etc.,
william_kent
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Mr. Tea
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OK, maybe not that poor.
IdleRich
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The whole point is that it's one of those "if you know then you know" type things - only members of a specific cognoscenti will have any clue that the extraordinarily bland and shapeless item you are wearing cost tens of thousands of pounds.
It's kinda like being a member of an exclusive society "Ah I see you too are very rich, very stupid and have absolutely no taste - pleased to meet you!".
Cos I understand there are people that spend that much on clothes... but to spend that much without caring what it looks like, that's what gets me.
IdleRich
IdleRich
I don't agree. Or I don't think it means society was generally smarter dressed - for one thing photos were a relatively rare occasion and so people got dressed up. Also people below a certain level of wealth probably never got photographed unless they were arrested or possibly recorded as part of some professor's study into whether it was the shape of their heads that had turned them into degenerate subhuman poor people
mixed_biscuits
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But that footage of NYC from yesteryear includes everyone who happened to be ambling around.
Even the guy on crutches is in a suit and wearing a bowler hat
mixed_biscuits
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You're very attached to these grey trackie bottoms - do you work for Gap?
mixed_biscuits
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This is a different matter: the modern gripe is that people dress poorly through choice.
Mr. Tea
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I didn't mean people who'd posed for a portrait, I mean when you see photos or video footage of people just walking around in a city. And "poor" was, er, a poor choice of word - I meant people doing manual trades, rather than actual tramps and street urchins. Go back beyond a certain point in the past and it was almost unthinkable for a man to be out in public without a hat, for example. (And even some of the boys in the photo @william_kent posted are wearing hats, come to think of it.)
shakahislop
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i quite like the hat thing, and i wonder if it will make a comeback at some point in the (distant) future. it's definitely less hassle than having tidy hair
WashYourHands
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Tonka Sound System were a hatty crew, holding on for dear life, rip Rev
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Main reason I wear a hat, tbh.
shakahislop
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that's the problem i think, maybe Mr Tea finds a way, but we're in a post-hat culture in the west
headgear in afghanistan is absolutely dense with meaning, i'm not even joking
shakahislop
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religious affiliation, tribal affiliation, the region you're from, your age and seniority, your level of affiliation with the traditional and the rural....all of these things are expressed through headgear
shakahislop
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also with hats you can basically just buy one. you get to choose. whereas hair is hardwired
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
For any jaunt, down the shops, the pub
