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In most of history, high status men and women seem to dress up about equally-- I suspect that interest in clothes is trained out of most boys very early in our culture.
Yes. I'd put it more as “is no longer trained into” than “is trained out of”, though.
The trained into/not trained out of distinction is an interesting one, and I think it would take a lot of close observation to figure out which of those is dominant.
I think it's just a matter of where to draw the baseline on the map, rather than a question about the territory -- after all feral children don't show that much interest in clothes, do they? so children mostly “learn” whether or not to be interested in clothes from their environment -- but OTOH it's still an empirical question how much of the teaching is deliberate.