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Re: Homo Hubris
« Reply #75 on: February 24, 2023, 07:12:29 pm »
Duchesne back again:

https://twitter.com/dr_duchesne/status/1629159173366620161

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1/7 Fashion was a European invention from early modern times -- whereas fashion was unknown in nonwhite civilizations. French historian Fernand Braudel observed that Eastern societies "stood still", and for this reason "fashion was less likely to change"...

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2/7 He cites J.B. Say in 1828: "I confess that the unchanging fashions of the Turks and other Eastern peoples do not attract me. It seems that their fashions tend to preserve their stupid despotism". A traveler in China (1793) noted: "Dress is seldom altered in China...

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3/7 Among the ladies, there is little variety in their dresses". Japan "remained faithful to the kimono". Changes occurred only when these societies were conquered, as when the Moguls brought their costumes to India, but "all these imitations, once adopted, scarcely change...

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4/7 over the centuries". The "European craze for fashion" began after about 1350". In the 16th century the "sumptuous costumes of Renaissance Italy, with their low-cut bodices, wide sleeves, hairnets, gold and silver embroidery, figured brocades, satin and crimson velvets...

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5/7 ...were replaced by Spanish sobriety with dark material, close-fitting doublets, padded hose, short capes and high collars edged with a small ruff". In the 17th century the "brightly coloured French costumes gradually took over..." Changing fashions can't be attributed...

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6/6 solely to increasing affluence. It was fundamentally an expression of the "restlessness" of Europeans, which expressed itself not only in their voyages across the globe, gunpowder revolution, Galilean science, and perspective painting, but also in "such trifles as dress...

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7/7 the shape of the shoes, and hairstyles". Mind you, these fashions, Braudel writes, were not "a trifling thing...but rather an indication of deeper phenomena, of the energies, possibilities, demand and joie de vivre of a given society".

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I agree. This is why we call you Homo Hubris.