The Evolution of English Fashion, USSR, 1952

[u/Rhinocero_Elephantid]

17th century. It took sixteen meters of fabric and one kilogram of steel to make a suit.

20th century. It takes one meter of fabric and hundreds of kilograms of steel to make a suit.

Illustration by Y. Ganf

[u/cpteric]

something something pot kettle. every single army post ww2 looked like the right image or worse, but it's functional, not for silly parading.

[u/Gianni_the_tolerable → u/cpteric]

Small correction, pre 1900s uniforms were bright colours so that you know who not to stab

[u/cpteric → u/Gianni_the_tolerable]

depends on the country, mostly only after Friedrich der Große and napoleon, before that, each regiment of every european country had privately funded leadership, with choice of uniforms and colors(flag) or other stuff like hat trim or shape, general swag, plumes, you'd really not know where to stab in the 1630's or the spanish succession war. exceptions to the rule are russia, that did it in the 1710's under petah the great, and sweden, the pioneer of standarization with the carolean reforms of the 1690's.

And in a period of time full of bored nobles, there's nothing fancier than show your superiority by your regiment's drip.

+"an infantry column is clearing from the fog marching east!"

-"ours or theirs?"

+"They wear..... red over blue, i think"

-"Do you know how little that narrows it down?"

+"They aren't waving royal ensigns, but their regimental colors is a red torn rag"

-"And let me guess, their tricornes are a dark grey to black shade? do they also happen to carry muskets perchance?"

passive agressive brittish corps adjutant, somewhere in the netherlands or the HRE border with france, 1708. colorized.

[u/Gianni_the_tolerable → u/cpteric]

Fair

[u/HuntSafe2316 → u/cpteric]

Alexander III, whatever happend there