/fa/ - Fashion

When we realized how much more comfortable it was to wear lighter fabrics in heat

>>6680515

When the hippies started wearing jeans.

Fashion is based on rebelling against your parents, and for companies to make loads of money in the mass production process of cheaply made clothes.

>>6680515
what do you mean "start"

people have been dressing casually since clothes were invented

World War 2 is what we have to blame for arguably the most casual item of clothing out there.

I'd look at the mass acceptance of wearing a T-shirt as an outer garment was the start to the increase in casualness of our clothing after the war.

The backlash to McCarthyism likely had a good role to play into it as well.

these are professionals in a major metropolitan area. not like everyone dressed like that all the time all over the US. most middle-aged working folks in NY still look like this, minus the hats.

>>6683609
Old people dress casually too

I bet it has a lot to do with modern capitalism, everything has to be cheap cheap cheap so naturally people have stopped giving a fuck
Also hippies
It's interesting how it has brought new ways in the way our culture can communicate with itself, I'm particularly intrigued by the sportswear sector of it

Cool thread op, it's nice to see some moderately stimulating topics started rather than
>Fa musicians
>fa beta thread
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If you started one of those threads, please lurk more before you start to clog the board with material that doesn't belong here
Proper board etiquette please

I'd wager that the increased accessibility of buying new clothes had something to do with it. Because, when the ability to buy new clothes is limited, you need to be very careful as to what you buy.

>>6683659
You're a hypocrite, and an enormous imbecile besides.

>>6683660
I'd suggest this has more to do with trend driven clothing, and the ultra fast pace fashion has today in comparison to yesteryears.

Which in respect has a connection to the costs of clothing, because now the trends move so quickly, one cannot invest in a set of solid well made pieces for a continual period of time, because within roughly 6 months, the majority of the 'in' things will be ruled 'out'.

Which has caused the push towards fast fashion to peak, with people buying cheap toss away clothing rather than solid pieces built in a way which may outlast the current trends of the time in which they are made.

I think too much into things.

Corporations realized how much money could be made by all of the kids in the 60s that wanted to use clothing to represent how they felt.

/k/ommando here, so I know little to nothing, but here's my guess.

During the 20's-50's, people bought VERY expensive things once. Manufacturing costs were high (considering inflation, earnings, etc.) and importing wasn't really a viable option for goods that could be made domestically.

Also, people brought up during the Great Depression knew the "value" of things. They lived through a time when you spent a lot of money once on a coat, and wore it 'till it was no longer acceptable to wear in public, then eeked a few more years out of it by sewing up holes, or used it for blanket material or household options.

There was also a sentimental value in the time taken to earn a coat or shirt or tie, whether through hard work and purchase or by mum sewing the thing.

Consequently, we see the same thing in firearms. Most guns from the 20's that were used but not abused still work today, and the people bringing them in for repair are either old and only have one or two guns, or they're in their late 40's or earlier, and got them from Dad or Granddad. If the latter, they've got a closet full of "toys" and are fixing it because dad "just had the one".

>>6683769
thats kinda what people get into rick for, saving up and wearing, havin a value item and shit

>>6683713
Century of the self?

Good doc