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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Rich cunts then:
Rich cunts now:
Poor cunts then:
Poor cunts now:
Or to put it another way, nothing has changed. The upper classes still dress like wankers who sniff their own farts, and the lower classes still dress with whatever they can afford that works for them.
Pretty sure only aristocrats dressed like that.
And wasn’t the makeup to hide chlamydia / syphilis etc?
I think it's also for the opposite? I mean, the white face, rosy cheeks and red lips were popularized due to the romantization of tuberculosis. The guy on the left could literally have tuberculosis looking at his face.
One of the many sources: https://historycollection.com/tuberculosis-became-the-victorian-standard-of-beauty/
Thanks for the lovely rabbit hole to fall into
Sure and perume was becase you didn't bathe ... And yet we still use both
I'm more of a summer/spring in my color scheme
I am an 1,87m tall, somewhat broad shouldered dude over 40 with a bit of a beer belly and a beard (imagine a stereotypical lumberjack but working in IT)... what is stopping me dressing like that? Well... i don't want to see people around me clawing out their eyes.
I don’t have breasts like that
I'm a bear built, and even though I just bought a skirt. I'll never look cute like that,
Don't under estimate the power of the combo of tiny skirt thicc thighs.
And you know what!
I'm a cis male, and I'm not even thinking this is any form of gender bending. I'm wearing them because when I wear them, they are manly.
I'm not against blurring gender lines, it just not my style. I just hate that make fashion is basically funeralwear.
When I die I want everyone to attend in the most colorful and creative outfits, need to make a will to ask people wearing a traditional suit to fuck off.
wasn't the make up meant to hide the lesions and wigs to hide the peeling scalp and hair loss?
Those lesions and hair loss were usually caused by syphilis which was considered wildly scandalous at the time.
There is absofukinglutely nothing stopping you from dressing like that, only yourself.
Noble vs peasant.
Mark Zuckerberg, who dresses pretty much like the guy on the right, then adds a watch worth $100k to indicate his status.
The pants shirts an hoodies the ultra wealthy wear are also often obscenely overpriced versions of the normal clothes. Like Luis Vuitton's plain tshirt, with a same color embossed logo on the front, for 700$. Or this one by Prada for 2500$ (its casmere)
Rich guys wearing really dour clothes is actually a relatively recent phenomenon in history. Up to the French Revolution the aristocrats were peacocked up to the max; maybe it was fear of the guillotine that saw their successors going around in North Face jackets.
Maybe we have grown out as a society of that childish one-upping each other with made up rules?
Have you met society? Society is a petty bitch!
I think they dropped a word there. I think "rich" was the word they dropped......
that's a part of it, however during the Victorian time. it became fashionable for men to be stoic and boring. that's why a guy can wear the same outfit for a meeting, a wedding, and a funeral.
although wealth is a big factor. it isn't the whole story. a good suit can cost a lot and still be fashionably bankrupt.
And if you try to put some flare, they will question your sexuality and distupt the corporate dynamics.
Tbf, that (dress dark and be boring) was probably due to all the opium/morphine they were on.
we have better drugs now, why are we still dressing like we are opium addicts??
See good buddy that's why you buy yourself thrift.
I wear suits that cost me 20 bucks that look better than what the president wears. Not that that's a high bar, but a worthy comparison.
Remember, the Roman's thought pants were for the effeminate easterners.
I do find it weird there's been this resurgence of fixation on superficial motifs being associated with masculinity, but the guys who parrot these views all have an appearance that screams, "I want to blend in and be invisible!"
Nothing masculine about tepid conformity.
Casually forgetting that they didn't shower back then.
This is a man vs bear scenario, repainted to make the modern man look like what feminazis view us as. Simple as.
I’m wearing awesome socks. Those are anything but boring!
Ugh, and this indoor plumbing and daily hygiene is such a chore.
Oh look, a clown.
That there is a dandy
