this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2024
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[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Guys dressed like this have a 100% chance of stealing all your spice.

[–] Dufurson 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Right into the harbor

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

99.99%

Sometimes they'll give you small trinkets in return, such as for example the town now known as New York.

The Speculaas are totally worth it too!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

People still use fashion to advertise their wealth.

All 3 of those are for showing you’re rich.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

I'm sure the "proof of wealth" kinda went like:

Ah, so you can afford pants and shirt?

Well how about a fancier shirt?

Yes? Well how about a jaunty hat.

Yes? What about fancy shoe buckles?

Yes? How about stockings?

Yes? Well now I've got a wig beneath my jaunty hat.

That too? How about makeup and perfume then!

Maybe an unnecessary cane. A gold chain sticking out so you know I have a nice watch hidden away. My fanciest kerchief sticking out of my pocket. See how white?

Today, we just post our expensive possessions on social media so you don't have to wear your proof.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Isn’t it marvelous that we live in times where fashion doesn’t play a big role any more? Even jobs that would require ties, say, 20 years ago, are now increasingly casual.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The perception has kinda flipped in twenty years.

Back then you'd wear a suit to project credibility.

Now the suit makes you look untrustworthy.

Disclaimer: Personal perspective and opinion. Not intended to be etched in stone universal fact.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I don’t think that’s true because I find strangers are a lot nicer to me when I wear a suit than they are when I wear a tshirt and jeans.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

This mountain of discarded plastic textiles says differently:

https://www.space.com/mountain-discarded-clothes-chile-satellite-photo

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

In the days before telecommunication and especially before formalized, reliable identification methods clothes were an obvious way to figure out a person's position in society. Expensive clothing was easy to spot when compared to cheaper clothing, so if a person was dressed in finery it was almost guaranteed they were actually wealthy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

It just switched to chinos, polo's, and boat shoes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

They dressed like that to hide the rampant Syphilis at the time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

So much better than the fashion of today.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

It's currently 2024 and mullets are in so we clearly haven't progressed much.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago