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Re: Counterculture and Western Civilisation
« Reply #30 on: March 21, 2023, 06:00:18 pm »
Our enemies complain about Counterculture-inspired decrease in the sexual dimorphism of clothes:

I was surprised to see that the neologism “unise...
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“Unisex” had a lot to do with Late Sixties wars over hair. In the 1960s, males got their hair cut only by male barbers.
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But in the 1970s it became cool for guys to get their hair cut by women. Hair salons put out signs declaring themselves “unisex” to advertise that the opposite sex was okay to come in.
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Nobody today remembers how hard Society pushed “unisex” androgyny in the 1970s. For example, from the Sears catalog:





I made a similar point (but in a positive tone) back here:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/questions-debates/re-dress-decolonization/msg5864/#msg5864

Contrast with the high sexual dimorphism of Western clothes:



This is how superior the Counterculture was.

With that said, one possible criticism is that, despite the Counterculture designers' good intentions, they had forgotten to remove Western button placement:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dress-decolonization/msg5632/?topicseen#msg5632

thus even the clothes pictured in the enemy post are inferior to non-Western clothes, none of which use sexually dimorphic button placement. This problem was solved only with the tracksuits I mentioned in the second link which used zips instead of buttons:

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