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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thormagni" data-source="post: 2476162" data-attributes="member: 13637">I suspect that society re-evaluates what it calls formal and informal wear, scaling up or down to fit the societal mores. If we get to the point where we all just wear fig leaves as our everyday wear, then fig leaves with a grapevine will become formal wear.I mean really, when you think about it, human clothing is pretty universal and the distinctions of "quality" and "class" are completely arbitrary. A pair of pants is a pair of pants. And one pair of pants that fits cover you just as well as another pair of pants. If we were talking about say car tires, the tires that wore out the slowest, were least likely to give out and offered the best handling would be the most valuable tires, right? Why is it with clothing that the most functional, most comfortable and longest-lasting clothes (I'm thinking blue jeans and say, a T-shirt here) are seen as low-class while a pair of thin, expensive and fragile dress pants are seen as upper-class? Which doesn't even get into the idea of designer clothes, which are generally completely impractical and fragile.</blockquote>