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I'll hijack this thread a little - I've always wondered what would happen if someone decided to simply start wearing only upper-class clothes from decades ago. eg. if one picked the 1940s, one would stock up on the trench coats & fedoras etc. What do the more fashion-knowledgeale LWers think would happen?
Some people already do this and they're generally considered clueless meganerds by the mainstream, as far as I can tell.
Hm. I too have seen such people at conventions and such, but they're always mixing trench coats/fedora with other things - they don't genuinely look like they've stepped out of the 40s, which is what I'm suggesting.
I've found that wearing a fedora is one of the most effective ways to get positive attention in many of my social events, for what it's worth. It's unusual but in a classy, conservative way, unlike many of the "peacocking" things that PUAs do.
Yeah, as ShardPhoenix says fedoras and the like can be a terrible fashion local optimum https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Fcringepics%2F+fedora
There are plenty of people who do that socially, especially in San Francisco. They tend to be young and hip with good jobs.
AIUI, that's sort of what the lower class used to wear some time ago, before the ghetto-gangster culture took over. I think wearing these kinds of clothes is a good idea and I've seen this advocated before (not by fashion experts, though).
Oh the ironing!