Great Male Renunciation
Great Male Renunciation
Look at what they took from you men. Reject modernity, embrace tradition.
Step in to the heels and flaunt the lace.
🎵 Be an example to your sex! Give your boot a dapper strap, And it's smarter if your garter has some snap!
Cravats should be flounced about our necks; Wear a nightcap when you nap - Be bewitching with some stitching on your cap!
Now, drape your cape And puff your cuff, Embroider those lapels! Be the king of the beasts in pastels!
La, but someone has to strike a pose And bear the weight of well-tailored clothes And that is why the Lord created men! 🎵
Okay Mat Cauthon
This is fascinating! As I understand it, driven by the enlightenment and the industrial revolution, men rejected beauty in favor of rationality and standardization. Men apparently traded in high-heels for a pocket-watch.
the beginnings of boring modernism 🥲
dress/formal/professional clothes are designed to enforce the class devide. Wear cheap casual and fuck that shit.
my wife and I dress pretty similarly. Does still look better on her though.
I feel that with modern casual clothes, we've somewhat renounced the renunciation. Most of my shirts are some color, even my dress shirts actually.
sad times 😔
Y tho?
Apparently a big part of it was Beau Brummel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beau_BrummellHe was an influencer among the English aristocracy and did a lot to drive the fashion of his era. That's him in the picture in this post.
Weird