The strangest things we do are also the things we think least about—for example, drinking cows’ milk, handing our children over into the care of paid strangers, going to gyms, wearing neckties, enjoying war as spectator sport, and shaving.
The way the first button-down shirts were made without collars - they were an entirely separate accoutrement.
This just further proves the point - the better one understand historical antecedents, the less “nonsensical” current things are.
We are crazy spoiled with modern fabrics - just the difference in my own lifetime is staggering. Jeans when I was a kid were stiff as cardboard - you had to break them in. Wrinkle free stuff didn’t really work well until at least the 90’s.
The pants I wear today are amazingly comfortable and flexible compared to what there was even 40 years ago, let alone 140 years ago.
My only problem with neck ties is that we have 5 torso off-shoots and we chose the one with the air hole to put the constricting knot around?
Because history.
The way the first button-down shirts were made without collars - they were an entirely separate accoutrement.
This just further proves the point - the better one understand historical antecedents, the less “nonsensical” current things are.
We are crazy spoiled with modern fabrics - just the difference in my own lifetime is staggering. Jeans when I was a kid were stiff as cardboard - you had to break them in. Wrinkle free stuff didn’t really work well until at least the 90’s.
The pants I wear today are amazingly comfortable and flexible compared to what there was even 40 years ago, let alone 140 years ago.