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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chachi" data-source="post: 2479066" data-attributes="member: 29483">Realistically, fashion dictates what we wear.  And who dictates fashion?  It's everyone from Tommy Hilfiger to Teva to Nike to Walmart, the companies making and selling the clothes, not the people wearing them.  Those companies have one thing in common.  They make casual clothes, not formal ones.   Even as recently as a couple of generations ago, this was not the case.  Many more men worked in production (farming, factories and the like) and many less worked in the relatively clean service industry.  One income households were more common.  Most women owned a sewing machine and could sew at least simple garments.  Many more people's clothes were handmade and they had proportionally fewer 'store bought' clothes.  So when a formal occasion came up, those fancy clothes were worn then.  Today, people's thoughts about clothing are different.  I imagine that most of us wear 'better' clothes to work than on the weekends.  I know that I do.  Our perceptions of clothing have completely been turned around.  We get dressed up for work according to dress codes and we lounge around on the weekends in the clothing that Tommy and Nike and Levi's have effectively told us to wear.  Those standards will continue to become less formal and those clothes that people will wear will become cheaper and need to be replaced more often.  If everyone had a pair of boots and a pair of shoes and had them resoled and didn't buy another pair for ten years, Nike and Adidas and the rest would fall apart.  So they create expensive, poorly made, disposable shoes.    Now, why did men fifty years ago wear hats (derbys, fedoras, etc) and (except for baseball hats) now none do?</blockquote>

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