The WORST Men's Fashion Fails in History!

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  @augustuswaddle469 · 3 years ago

  These aren't all "fails", most of these are just different styles and customs that seem weird to us today because it's been hundreds of years.

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• GE

  @Genesis3Chi · 3 years ago

  As a reenactor across the 16th/17th century period you were detailing a lot of my regulars and I am deeply disappointed that you believe people were not washing their undergarments.<br>Their outer woollens would indeed be brushed and aired rather than washed to increase the lifetime of the item, but linens that sat close to the skin would be regularly washed and many techniques used to keep them clean and bright

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• CA

  @campusconservatives559 · 3 years ago

  Everything in this video was infinitely more stylish and pleasing to the eye than anything that was worn during the 1970s.

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• US

  @user-qi5jw2hg1c · 3 years ago

  Us barristers in the UK still wear the wigs for most court appearances. They&apos;re still handmade from horsehair, but I don&apos;t think they&apos;re powdered!

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• AU

  @aurorasartorialis · 3 years ago

  Linen and hempen undergarments were washed <b>very</b> regularly and completely sanitized (by boiling) at least seasonally. There&apos;s a number of in-depth videos available on 18th century laundering practices, and Abby Cox has a video on how disgusting modern laundry is, by comparison. There are also numerous videos on sponge baths and how not submerging yourself in a kettle-heated bathtub every day does not equate to never washing. This is all widely available information.<br><br>But to reiterate — undergarments were changed out frequently and laundered often. It&apos;s the other (usually woolen garments, frequently lined with silk or fur) garments that get reworn and don&apos;t get washed very often, except spot cleaning. And honestly, how often do you launder your suit jackets? I feel like this is an area where people wearing classic menswear really ought to get it in a way that people wearing t-shirts on bare skin might not.

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• BR

  @brucetidwell7715 · 3 years ago

  A couple of historical footnotes: The term &quot;Powder room&quot; derives from the fact that wealthy people often had a closet devoted to powdering their hair so that said powder wasn&apos;t drifting all over the bedroom. Second, before the discovery of germ theory in the early 19th century, people thought disease was carried by bad odors. It was not practical for people to take full baths, and at times people did believe that dunking oneself in a tub of water. That&apos;s not surprising given that this would have been dunking yourself in tub of , at best lukewarm water in a poorly heated room. They were concerned about body odors and sponged off important areas on a regular basis. That is what a wash basin and pitcher (for hot water) is used for. While nice outer clothes made of expensive fabrics were rarely ever washed, the long undershirts, intended to protect their outer clothing were washed as often as people could afford to do so. Wearing an obviously stained shirt was a distinct mark of social inferiority.

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• BE

  @BEAMChannel · 3 years ago

  In reenactor circles, it is pretty common when wearing a codpiece to put a squeaky toy inside it.

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• TA

  @talavb9301 · 3 years ago (edited)

  1. Why don&apos;t we like the chaperon? I quite like the look!<br>2. I am curious about your source for the origin of the chaperon. I&apos;ve seen the same explanation for its origin presented as a theory by Jason Kingsley on YouTube, so I would be curious to know if he was the source of that (perhaps he deserves accreditation in that case) or perhaps both GG and he got the idea from the same place, or some different other places, etc. <br><br>I only mention because, as far as I recall, Kingsley presented the idea as a product of his own personal speculation, so if indeed it was, I feel he deserves a shout!<br><br>3. Small point, but during the discussion of breeches, Preston is discussing court uniforms, whilst the image depicts what I understand to be the men-at-arms at the House of Commons.

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• LA

  @LaGiaGarcia · 3 years ago (edited)

  Etiquette consultant here: Shirts are still considered underwear today. There is a story of a Savile Row tailor who had a new hire. Tailors would remove their jackets to work. One of the tailor’s assistants had to send a message to another tailor across the street. He ran outside in his shirt and was berated by his tailor to never be out in public without his coat. <br><br>Also, the reason we wear military style trousers today is because the Duke of Wellington was wearing his battle trews and was not let into a party, because he was not wearing the appropriate dress breeches at the time. After that, royal decree shifted from his experience gradually taking over the contemporary style.

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• JI

  @jimwhitman3678 · 3 years ago

  I guess you can call the Hoodie the new coif.

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• KR

  @krunoslavkovacec1842 · 3 years ago

  In my country it was common for households to use cotton diapers up untill the 1980s. They were economical and only needed to be washed and boiled to be reused. Heck, some people do it nowadays too.

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• TH

  @TheRugghead · 3 years ago

  1. Coifs were for helmets and lice protection . And it was really cold all the time .

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