stackyFACTSBefore the elite decided everything had to be pristine white, an average woman simply got married in whatever her best dress happened to be. If your absolute best outfit was dark brown and slightly itchy, congratulations, that was your bridal gown.
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Being quiet and demure was actively rejected in favor of maximum auditory annoyance. Young fashionable women deliberately wore heavy rubber overshoes…
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Subtlety was entirely absent when it came to projecting male virility. Men vigorously packed their codpieces with massive handfuls of sawdust and rags to…
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Overcompensating isn't just for guys with lifted trucks. In the 15th and 16th centuries, European knights and nobles wore padded and armored codpieces to…
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Being punctual was completely treated as a highly embarrassing social failure. Elite partygoers heavily intentionally arrived completely hours after the…
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If you think color-coding children is an ancient biological mandate, think again. Until the mid-twentieth century, pink was enthusiastically marketed as a…
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Inventor Thomas Edison obsessively tried to solve the affordable housing crisis in 1908 by patenting a massive cast-iron mold to pour entire, seamless…
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