• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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        2 months ago

        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.