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I mean, by people I think you mean people with money. People dress appropriate to their station. People then doing manual labor couldn’t afford clothes like the dude in the post and wouldn’t have wasted money on clothes that weren’t durable and easily cleaned.
T-shirt and jeans became the standard due to their cheap cost to manufacture, durability, and standardized sizes and popularity in the mining, farming, and railroad industry, and again with WWII.
Not a lot of jobs these days that allow for fancy dress and not many people can afford their own tailor. Not to mention temperatures were much cooler back then allowing all those extra layers, where as now you’d melt in some parts.
Of course I don't mean the lower classes would wear a suit like that.
They would wear different clothes. But trousers, waistcoat, shirt are standard British clothing for all classes.
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The only people that actual seem to dress British are people that work in finance and schoolchildren. Thank God for uniforms.
Fair enough
I can see why we abandoned that way of dressing in Australia. Our weather is too hot aside from inland in winter. We imported that style, but so often men would have their shirts, ties, vests, jackets off wearing only trousers, shoes, and a hat.
Though it's still the uniform in private schools, shorts for the boys and trousers for the young men