What happened to being well-dressed?

[Based Cheeto]

In these slovenly times, at least one man bravely soldiers on...

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

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does this count as being well dressed

Take off the helmet and mix up the colors and you have my everyday dress
OT: Do you really want to wear a suit all the time? As many posters have noted, they wore those clothes because it was expensive, first and foremost. A suit wasn't something you got because you WANTED it but because you HAD to have it. Compare that to an era where clothes can basically come out for the price of vidya and everyone knows you dont have to kill your feet with oxfords unless you really want to show off and there's going to be a difference.

 

[Maurice Caine]

Let's be honest, most people in the 50's dressed like that. Can see pulling it off without tucking the shirt in (which is tacky as fuck, tbh).

 

[Stoneheart]

im sorry but i look very good in blue jeans....

 

[Homegrown Homophobia]

"It isn't comfortable" has been the go to response when I ask manchildren why they still constantly wear shorts and graphic tee's like 9 year olds instead of real clothes.

There's also a real lack of shame in this society. See fat people, fur fags, cosplayers outside of conventions for proof of this.

Definitely for cargo shorts. I felt like a new man when I threw mine all out and replaced them regular khaki shorts.

im sorry but i look very good in blue jeans....

Jokes aside, Levi's 501 jeans and their knockoffs are awesome and will never go out of style. They can be dressed up and down super easily.

 

[Lemmingwise]

People don't have money left after they've spent it on their avatar wardrobe and horse armor.

 

[ConfederateIrishman]

I mean, that's what I chalk it up to: people give less of a fuck about social hierarchy.

Dressing nice is a class thing, and always has been. Lots of people itt talk about how "well used to everyone had a suit" and all that shit. No. They didn't. All the *middle class* people that we see pictures and video of had suits. The Irish immigrants working in sweatshops didn't. The Italians living nuts to butts in windowless (as in there were holes, but no frames or panes) blockhouses didn't.

People wore suits because they needed everyone to know they were a middle class wasp and not a fucking disgusting working class eye-tie or potato nigger.

A lot of that social interaction was some keeping up with the Joneses shit. My parents had me later in life so growing up I got to see a lot of that real old school stuffy money bullshit, everything was about perceived social class. A lot of "oh no you can't go over to Longfeather's house, what would people think?" "Oh you're really planning on wearing *that* to dinner? You know Mr. Sheckelgruber will be there."

I just see a lot less of that social hierarchy, pecking order bullshit. Maybe it's my old man punk rock roots, but I see young people telling the fat cat corpo shills to fuck off as a good thing. Yeah there's still lots of CONSOOM but actually interacting with these young people, they are a lot shrewder than most of us give credit for, and I think we shouldn't mistake commercials and paid influencers for actual habits.

I disagree; I've seen photos and even some early video of my great-grandparents, and they went out of their way to dress as well as they could have even though they were not middle class until very late in their lives. Dressing well was one of the few things they control after-all since it is not like they could change their background and they didn't have the opportunities my grandparents managed to get that propelled them into the middle class.

 

[A Cardboard Box]

I disagree; I've seen photos and even some early video of my great-grandparents, and they went out of their way to dress as well as they could have even though they were not middle class until very late in their lives. Dressing well was one of the few things they control after-all since it is not like they could change their background and they didn't have the opportunities my grandparents managed to get that propelled them into the middle class.

My wife's family were working class Irish immigrants and they wore moth eaten jackets out of trash bins and bundled up newspapers for shoes for most of their lives. I think people have some really rosy views of shit they understand nothing of.

I dunno man, a lot of trad faggots in this thread. Kiwi Farms is a lot less fun since Trump lost and I think it's because of the massive influx of tards from pol and tradfag boomers. Frankly I'm getting sick of pol threads like this.

 

[Bass]

what kind of man would ever go to a celebration without a proper codpiece.

I ask myself this question everyday.

 

[The Real Me]

Fucks me up that I don’t get to wear my salmon dress shirt as often as I’d like.

 

[babadook]

My wife's family were working class Irish immigrants and they wore moth eaten jackets out of trash bins and bundled up newspapers for shoes for most of their lives. I think people have some really rosy views of shit they understand nothing of.

I dunno man, a lot of trad faggots in this thread. Kiwi Farms is a lot less fun since Trump lost and I think it's because of the massive influx of tards from pol and tradfag boomers. Frankly I'm getting sick of pol threads like this.

Not your safe space

 

[A Cardboard Box]

Not your safe space

Lmao. Lot of angry poltards on the farms these days. I will enjoy the next four years.

 

[John Titor]

Weather. Suits look nice but I would die wearing those here in warmer days.

 

[Brahma]

I disagree; I've seen photos and even some early video of my great-grandparents, and they went out of their way to dress as well as they could have even though they were not middle class until very late in their lives. Dressing well was one of the few things they control after-all since it is not like they could change their background and they didn't have the opportunities my grandparents managed to get that propelled them into the middle class.

They weren't carrying a camera around with them all day.

The pictures and videos you saw of them were on high holidays or events, so of course they were dressed up.

 

[Eris!]

The existence of standards, regardless of what those standards may be, is now viewed philosophically as an imposition you have no right to impose on others. Having standards of behavior divides people into judgeable categories in a value hierarchy, which is forbidden.

 

[Queen Elizabeth II]

Standards are racist bigot

Standards are part of the class hierarchy bigot

Standards are abelist bigot.

My own opinion jokes aside? Clothes are a sign of wealth, it's the same as a peacock. As poor as the poor are, many of them are wealthier than the poor of ages past.

Standards arent slipping so much as all classes are playing by the same rulebook now where in previous ages they could not and did not.

 

[Jhonson Jhonson]

I think the word you search is neglected.

 

[MAPK phosphatase]

I'm wearing a three piece suit right now.

 

[Frostnipped Todger]

I dress however is appropriate for the occasion. At work, I wear construction gear and I wear it till it falls apart. If I'm out I. The weekends, I'm clean and tidy, but still casual. But if I'm going to an event or something that would mean wearing 'fancy' clothes, then I'll dress up like a motherfucker. Dressing nicely shows respect to your host, your fellow attendees and yourself.
Then again, I'm odd... I insisted on a dress code for my wedding because I didn't want some tard looking like a hobo in photos I'll have for the rest of my life.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

I dress however is appropriate for the occasion. At work, I wear construction gear and I wear it till it falls apart. If I'm out I. The weekends, I'm clean and tidy, but still casual. But if I'm going to an event or something that would mean wearing 'fancy' clothes, then I'll dress up like a motherfucker. Dressing nicely shows respect to your host, your fellow attendees and yourself.
Then again, I'm odd... I insisted on a dress code for my wedding because I didn't want some tard looking like a hobo in photos I'll have for the rest of my life.

This.

When I'm in the field, I dress for the fucking field.
When I'm going to the bars, I turn the fuck up*.

I used to buy into the whole "no I dress comfortably!", but then I realized that 1) comfortable is a subjective term that changes based on the environment your in and 2) dressing "well" honestly isn't that uncomfortable - a well-fitting collared shirt is only marginally less flexible than an ill-fitting T-shirt or sports jersey, and quite honestly my feet have an easier time in leather oxfords than flip-flop sandals.

*within reason, don't want to be the weirdo over-dressed in the corner