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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9461451" data-attributes="member: 19675">One of the more interesting things I read about post my academic years was The Great Male Renunciation.  Synopsis: in the mid/late 1800s, men’s fashion went from bright colors and ornate, flashy attire to simplified styles and a palette of white paired with reserved darker colors- black, grays, greens, browns and blues.  Beau Brummell was one of the major “influencers” in this movement.This remained true until The Peacock Revolution of the late 1950s-1960s, when colorful, flashy clothes became more acceptable for men.  But even that was mostly a countercultural change.  Unless you’re a celebrity of some kind, the rules of dressy/formal menswear haven’t changed appreciably in over a century and a half.</blockquote>