Old Men---Please don't do this.

[politicat]

165. Very much this. History shows the elder generation never likes the younger's choices.

Roman men complained about their sons wearing long hair, eschewing togas for tunics, and their daughters' choice of silk over wool.

Medieval churchmen complained about embroidery, men wearing short tunics and hose, and women wearing both close-cut garments and their hats.

Elizabethan men complained about high neck lines, ruffs, low neck lines, hoops, trunk hose, and imported fabrics.

Georgian era men hated the Regency/Federalist era fashions -- giving up wigs was slackerish, paying attention to tailoring instead of ornamentation was a Jacobin conceit, and women who dared only wear a couple layers of light cotton (and minimal corsetry) were both immodest and risking their health and souls.

Those same Regency Bucks who revolutionized men's fashion (like your trousers? Thank the Regency) were scandalized twenty years later by plaid waistcoats and women who returned to waist definition (through corsetry) and fuller skirts. In turn, the Philip-Louis era young adults grew up to scorn the bustle, the wasp waist and mutton-chop whiskers, who grew up to complain about shorter skirts and cycling trousers.

Every fashion is a reaction to the previous generation, and every previous generation finds it scandalous. This is human nature, and a result of aging. There is generational envy -- those young'uns are wasting their youth and disrespecting their elders and why don't I look like that anymore and get off my lawn -- and a misplaced nostalgia.