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guest_
· 5 years ago
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Oh man. Just wait until you find out what people have been paying for furniture when they could use boxes and milk crates. Or a lifetime of clothes when old bedding and packing material can make clothing that covers while protecting from the elements. Lawyers and business people have wasted so much on suits when they could have done DIY patchwork items this while time.
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bluefrost51
· 5 years ago
Wow incredible. Wait until you find out how furniture is a symbol of a cluttered mind. Clothing is used to make class division and is an emission of our consumer obsessed culture. Lawyers and business people have utilized funding of those they've never met to be contracted to those they will never know. The utilization of suits is a just a symbol of their guarded stance against all because deep down they can't even trust themselves.
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guest_
· 5 years ago
Fun fact- some history for you. The suit actually emerged as a rejection of classist clothing. The fashion of the elite was to wear capes and hosiery and high heels, furs and colors and jewelry. Men. I’m talking about men. Look at old paintings of monarchs and the wealthy. Elaborate and impractical garb which cost more than most commoner make in their lives. Usually taking long times to put on and often requiring at least one or more people to dress you- servants of the wealthy. Likewise Len would apply makeup and meticulous grooming and equally grandiose hair.
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guest_
· 5 years ago
The suit, with a single ornament of a ribbon/scarf around the neck emerged as an “every man’s style.” Simple- easy to put on, and with little to differentiate one from another. A popular social “influencer” who also had the ear of the monarchy happened to make it popular in the court and the suit became a thing- and evolved over time.
guest_
· 5 years ago
Even “black tie,” like a tuxedo- which most think of as quite fancy- is not technically considered “formal evening wear” and in higher society is limited to perhaps a nice dinner with family or acquaintances. There are actually several echelons above- American southerners know a thing or two about that if they’ve ever been around southern royalty.
guest_
· 5 years ago
The suit is meant as a uniform- to help abolish the vast differences in class and social circles one can show through clothing. Styles of suit and more exotic materials etc. May come from some capitalist and classist place within people- but the “classic suit” is still as classic today as ever, and can be had very affordably. In fact- many jobs in service and sales also require one to where a suit- and in the 21st century being allowed discretion in your work place dress is often a sign of wealth and power, being able to wear your street clothes or not have to groom ones self to a standard other than their own is often reserved for the very wealthy or the highly sought after professional.
guest_
· 5 years ago
More over- the suit, which already existed as a “professionals uniform” was supplanted by things like the branded polo shirt or job specific uniform as a way to easily identify those who belong to a certain class of worker that usually is on the lower social strata. So not only was the suit not created as a tool of classism but to fight classism at a time when egalitarian democracy and uprisings made being particularly fopish and ornate a danger to self- what with the traditional elaborate dress of wealth being a walking billboard to stir class unrest and make you very unpopular- but...
guest_
· 5 years ago
... even in 2019 a car sales person at a nice dealership, a hotel bartender, and a lawyer coming back from court can’t be identified easily as who’s who just by looking- but if you see two people fresh off work and one is unshaven with lots of piercings in street clothes and carrying a nice backpack and the other is wearing a branded polo and slacks.... you know who makes more with reasonable surety.
guest_
· 5 years ago
But hey- what do I know.
