By Susan Green
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Not just the rich elegant people who wanted to waste their money on gold and silver buttons, buckles, braid and embroidery, but the poor struggling workers who made them. The laws were going to ruin their industries. The crackdown turned into a backdown, and the laws were quickly repealed. Are Your legs legal? Another set of laws were made to protect people from seeing women’s legs. In 1850s France, for example, a woman who wanted to wear trousers had to get government permission. In Bavaria during World War I, 51 women were forbidden to wear trousers except while skiing.
So he started wearing a wig. 44 Louis was quite short, so his wigs were very high to make him look taller. Soon every fashionable man in Europe had followed his lead. Wigs became a symbol of male dignity and power. Bigwigs Periwigs (later shortened to wig) were very large and heavy, a mass of curls and ringlets which rose from either side of a centre parting and flowed down over the shoulders and back nearly to the waist. Rich men wore wigs instead of their natural hair from 1660 till around 1800, and high-quality human hair wigs were an expensive status symbol.
Under the influence of Beau Brummell, flashy styles and colours went out of style for men. And stayed that way. Suitable Clothes For the next 150 years, men’s fashion was ruled by the three-piece suit. Trousers, jacket and waistcoat, that is. ’ The suit was nearly always suitable. Wealthy gentlemen had theirs sewn and fitted by tailors: ordinary men bought them ready-made. Colours were usually dull, such as black, grey or dark blue. In the hippie era of the 1960s and 1970s, men got to break out with caftans, velvet flares, embroidered vests, beads and scarves.
