I wonder if future people will see the suit and tie and think about it similarly to how we look at paintings of people from the 17th century wearing Ruffs, and concluding that they looked silly. I sure do think ties look silly.
Ties are especially ironic because they derived from a time when buttons - made by necessity out of rare items like ivory or whale bone - were expensive as fuck and it was cheaper to close up your neck with a strip of scrap fabric. Most people today can afford plastic buttons.
I think suit/tie and dresses are the only type of clothing every human will recognize for as long as civilization as we know it doesn’t crumble. You could show someone from 100300 years ago, a suit or a dress from today, and they would know what it was
Suit/tie combo has been the focul point of men’s fashion longer than any other style(in western culture at least). It’s remained more or less the same for over 100 years
I wonder if future people will see the suit and tie and think about it similarly to how we look at paintings of people from the 17th century wearing Ruffs, and concluding that they looked silly. I sure do think ties look silly.
Ties are especially ironic because they derived from a time when buttons - made by necessity out of rare items like ivory or whale bone - were expensive as fuck and it was cheaper to close up your neck with a strip of scrap fabric. Most people today can afford plastic buttons.
Of course it will be seen as silly. Most people are just too used to them to see them that way today.
It’s like seeing judges wearing wigs and robes. At one point that was just normal formalwear, but it looks really goofy now.
I think suit/tie and dresses are the only type of clothing every human will recognize for as long as civilization as we know it doesn’t crumble. You could show someone from
100300 years ago, a suit or a dress from today, and they would know what it wasThe suit is a 20th century invention.
Someone might “know what it was”, i.e. it’s a jacket that doesn’t close properly and matching pants. But, they didn’t exist until the 20th century.
It’s a matter of time before they finally go out of fashion, and people look at them like we look at men wearing tights and shirts with puffy sleeves.
Nah. It was invented in the 17th century.
Edit: and the suits from the 18th century look almost exactly the same as ours https://myhistoryfix.com/fashion/mens-suits-history/
You think suits from the 18th century look almost exactly the same as ours?
Not that far off
Suit/tie combo has been the focul point of men’s fashion longer than any other style(in western culture at least). It’s remained more or less the same for over 100 years