theweefreewomen:yesterdaysprint:Life magazine, 1916[text entitled A Manly Confession: I am a man, an
theweefreewomen:yesterdaysprint:Life magazine, 1916[text entitled A Manly Confession: I am a man, and I should dress like a woman if I were not such a coward.That is, I should revel in velvets, in silks and satins, in plumes and ruffles, in rich or delicate colors, in daring and dashing modes, in endless variety suited to my whim, to the weather or the occasion. It would be great fun. It would be an artistic gratification. But I don’t dare.In the days of knighthood, when men were really brave, they out-dressed the women; but in these degenerate days we do not venture our fancies beyond cravats. No man in modern times has dared to dress how he pleased, except Oscar Wilde, and we buried him with craven hisses.We men rail at women’s fashions, but in our hearts we know ourselves to be the slaves of fashion, of one dull, deadly, monotonous fashion, which we hate, but from which we are too cowardly to free ourselves.]I see someone added that stupid inaccurate Beau Brummel thread in the comments, so I’d like to state once again that the person who wrote that crap did zero research, and to link to this other thread by an actual historian:https://twitter.com/mimicofmodes/status/1100402204631072768 -- source link
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