Timeline for New tech, old clothes
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| Jun 7, 2020 at 15:34 | comment | added | user76252 | @SRM but corsets don't make people thinier, they don't deform bones or organs, they don't deform muscles....they are not different than powerlifting belts. | |
| Jun 7, 2020 at 14:58 | comment | added | SRM | @hermes I can stack citations on both sides of that argument. They are healthy for some body forms, but once they become a fashion element, then everyone has to wear it, regardless. And when the corsets are used to make everyone look Snow White thin, well, that ain’t healthy. | |
| Jun 7, 2020 at 13:27 | comment | added | user76252 | Corsets were proven to be healthy and not pain inducing, they were demonized by Christians.. | |
| Oct 16, 2016 at 8:45 | comment | added | NuWin | This is a 'fashionable' answer but not a good one. | |
| Oct 15, 2016 at 18:22 | comment | added | Daerdemandt | > bare legs in Russian winters I suppose it's more due to adopting fashions of whatever European country nobility of that time was obsessed with. Showing off your sick furs and bling has better signaling value: any slave can go with bare legs, whereas not many people can afford epic swag. | |
| Oct 15, 2016 at 17:17 | comment | added | jamesqf | @Joel Harmon: OTOH, I can't offhand recall the last time I saw one of my female friends wearing a skirt. Though maybe that's because I usually see them out hiking, riding bikes or horses, and similar. | |
| Oct 15, 2016 at 15:42 | comment | added | SRM | Joel: Speaking as one whose friends work renfaires, I would agree with your belief. :-) | |
| Oct 15, 2016 at 15:28 | comment | added | Joel Harmon | @TMN Can confirm: carrying a large sword as a fashion accessory helps in many situations. | |
| Oct 15, 2016 at 15:28 | comment | added | Joel Harmon | @SRM I have three friends who wear utilikilts on a casual basis (whereas I tend to only wear my kilt to formal occasions). I have not done a survey of my male friends to see whether they'd be embarrassed. Anecdotally, the guys I've talked to that don't wear them are more concerned that they wouldn't look good than receiving social fallout. On the other hand, I do believe I have some unusual friends. | |
| Oct 14, 2016 at 19:28 | comment | added | TMN | @jamesqf: Or a Claymore... | |
| Oct 14, 2016 at 16:31 | comment | added | jamesqf | @Joel Harmon: Though I imagine it helps if you have a bagpipe with you :-) | |
| Oct 14, 2016 at 14:35 | comment | added | SRM | Joel: yeah, but how many of your friends don't wear kilts because they expect public shame? You're showing confidence in your fashion choice. | |
| Oct 14, 2016 at 11:29 | comment | added | Joel Harmon | As a man occasionally in a kilt, I can say that I've never had anything I'd consider social pain come out of it. Most social consequences are in one of two categories: compliments and "you don't see that every day". I've never experienced anything like insults or mockery because of it, and it is often a good conversation piece. | |
| Oct 13, 2016 at 21:19 | comment | added | Hermit | That hypothesis is called the Handicap Principle in evolution theory en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicap_principle | |
| Oct 13, 2016 at 19:23 | comment | added | Ethan The Brave | I think the line "I can afford this waste" is very important here. In a lot of sci-fi worlds, resource efficiency is an important societal issue seeing as we are looking at crazy-high populations, etc. It could simply be due to seeing complicated clothes as 'wasteful'. | |
| Oct 13, 2016 at 16:15 | vote | accept | totally not rick sanchez | ||
| Oct 13, 2016 at 16:13 | history | answered | SRM | CC BY-SA 3.0 |