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Originally Posted by Uptowngirl
Well of course it is fickle...however certain styles are timeless, especially those that are derivative of the heritage of Western civilization.
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Ok... So back to clothes, what clothing styles are timeless? What clothing styles are "definitive of western civilization"? If we assume that the form of the Parthenon is the most "definitive" of Western civilization and that we should therefore still build some buildings like it, then the same article applies to Toga's and tunics should still be timeless today. Yet if you wore those styles on the street today people would think you were crazy. Same applies to the puffy clothes worn in the Renaissance when they were building Gothic architecture and to the over blown conservatism of Victorian dress and architecture...
The only reason the same rules don't apply in your mind to clothing as well as architecture is that there is an inherent appeal in our minds of a sense of "permanence". People think old=permanent and therefore better, but we associate old clothes with being worn out and outdated. This can be seen in the rotation of styles in architecture every style is despised about 30-40 years after it was popular, which is probably because buildings hit the bottom of their useful life by then and are at the bottom of their "permanence". About 50-60 years after a style was popular people realize how wrong they were to tear it down because most of the remaining examples of that style have either been renovated and "become permanent" again or been torn down.
The fact of the matter is that its bad to tear down any good example of any style, but its worse to mock those old styles by building halfassed imitations of them.