comepraisetheinfanta:thebaconsandwichofregret: comepraisetheinfanta:sartorialadventure: Also Beau
comepraisetheinfanta:thebaconsandwichofregret: comepraisetheinfanta: sartorialadventure: Also Beau Brummel got in terrible debt and had to flee the country, and died in Paris, of syphilis. So there’s that. This is so wildly inaccurate and I die every time I even remember that this thread exists God me too! Literally every single thing she said was wrong. Beau was mocked as effeminate, spent hours every day getting dressed, and wore elaborate neckerchiefs. The REAL reason everyone suddenly stopped wearing elaborate expensive garishly bright clothes at the beginning of the 1800s is because the richest and most decadent royal court in the world had just all been violently murdered by a bunch of pissed off starving peasants who were fed up of watching their children die while their nobles bought silk brocade dresses. The rest of Europe looked at the French Revolution and went “Shit. Don’t want that to happen here, maybe lets tone it down on the fashion front so we don’t piss our peasants off so much” Beau Brummell if he was ANYTHING was a push back AGAINST the toning down of men’s fashion! And most importantly he was only ONE MAN! He certainly was not powerful enough or influential enough to be given credit for the socio-political fallout of the French Revolution. Twitter op also ignores the fact that garish colors and patterns made an appearance in Victorian* menswear and that 70s fashion existed so EVEN if they were right about menswear getting boring as fuck because of Brummell (which lol, no) it’s not like men’s fashion experienced a downward spiral into uniform cuts, neutral colors, and a disappearance of patterns, neither history nor fashion work that way (Also OP ignores the effect of industrialization and the mass production of clothing, I mean lol being rich as fuck and being able to afford a tailor and quality fabric is part of the reason why wealthy 18th century men got to walk around in gorgeous as fuck brocade coats etc etc etc). *Brummell died about 3 years after the beginning of the Victorian era, his main impact was on Regency fashionLook at this Victorian shit:Infinitely more varied and interesting than suits worn by most men today and this is post Brummell. And the 70s, Jesus fuck, the 70s:Look at those patterns, colors, and cuts. Even the more basic slightly more formal stuff in the top image isn’t anywhere near as boring as a basic blue suit an average guy might wear today. AND talking about toxic masculinity… today’s toxic masculinity would take such a fucking hit if men recreated in some form the intricate rituals of dress and the ritual of OBSERVING each other shop and dress that Beau and Co had. Can you fucking IMAGINE if men adopted the kind of culture many women have when it comes to shopping as a group ritual?!?! -- source link
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