wheel-skellington: thebaconsandwichofregret: comepraisetheinfanta: sartorialadventure: Also Beau Bru
wheel-skellington:thebaconsandwichofregret:comepraisetheinfanta:sartorialadventure:Also Beau Brummel got in terrible debt and had to flee the country, and died in Paris, of syphilis. So there’s that.This is so wildly inaccurate and I die every time I even remember that this thread exists God me too! Literally every single thing she said was wrong. Beau was mocked as effeminate, spent hours every day getting dressed, and wore elaborate neckerchiefs.The REAL reason everyone suddenly stopped wearing elaborate expensive garishly bright clothes at the beginning of the 1800s is because the richest and most decadent royal court in the world had just all been violently murdered by a bunch of pissed off starving peasants who were fed up of watching their children die while their nobles bought silk brocade dresses. The rest of Europe looked at the French Revolution and went “Shit. Don’t want that to happen here, maybe lets tone it down on the fashion front so we don’t piss our peasants off so much”Beau Brummell if he was ANYTHING was a push back AGAINST the toning down of men’s fashion! And most importantly he was only ONE MAN!He certainly was not powerful enough or influential enough to be given credit for the socio-political fallout of the French Revolution. add “not dressing like a french noble” to the list of things that apparently count as toxic if youre a man -- source link