49 thoughts on “Why did people in the 50s and early 60s wear suits casually everywhere?

        • Anonymous says:

          Based stupid, it’s a formal event BECAUSE they’re all wearing suits. The question is WHY. Pic related is the same event in 2018.

          • Anonymous says:

            >same event
            It’s not the same event, stupid. Pic in the op is Fischer vs Tal in the chess olympiad, while the pic you posted now is Fabi vs Magnus in the 2018 world chess championship.
            This is the chess olympiad in 2018 btw, same event as in the op 58 years later.

          • Anonymous says:

            What? The chess olympiad had a strict dress code in 1960, but not so much in 2018. People wore casual clothes at the 2018 olympiad with its loose dress code but not at the 1960 olympiad with its strict dress code.
            So is the final point that people dress up when attending an event with a strict dress code? That’s really interesting, thanks for bringing it up.

  1. Anonymous says:

    It was the societal standard and simply how things were done. You spent more on your wardrobe but wore it more often.
    It’s also a pretty practical way of dressing which can be dressed up or down and has a surprising amount of variety.

      • Anonymous says:

        Not lewd, just indecent and classless. You know how you look at fatties in walmart shopping in their pajamas? That’s how people would have looked at you walking around in jeans and a t-shirt if you weren’t a mechanic or farm laborer

        • Anonymous says:

          It was basically just busy body stupids enforcing an arbitrary social standard by acting as a self rightous gestapo. The good ole days sucked. So do suits. I’ll take the freedom to look like shit with the cons of day people existing over wearing pajamas and pretending it’s what God wanted men to wear every day.

          • Anonymous says:

            I’d prefer a world where people didn’t look and dress like shit. Unfortunately being obese and dressing terribly is widespread today. At least smoking is uncommon in my country.

          • Anonymous says:

            Dressing well and not being obese goes hand-in-hand with smoking because all three are relics of more conservative times

      • Anonymous says:

        >Good, people are too immodest today, and then they’re surprised people act like beasts
        Man what the heck happened to this place. Go post on a church forum or something

        • Anonymous says:

          LULZ’s weird contrarian shitposting flipped from misanthropic atheism to christian fundamentalist roleplay sometime during the obama administration, especially with /pol/’s reaction the the mainstream acceptance of SJWs.

  2. Anonymous says:

    Just started a philosophy class at my community college to get some credits, and some guy that’s like 32ish comes in every day wearing a wool suit and a wool paper boy hat. He carries his shit in a leather shoulder bag and instead of typing things out or writing them on paper he has an ipad and a stylus that he writes on an ms paint type software. He has a really shitty scruffy beard and pretends to be on a similar level of intelligence with the professor and holds up the class with his comments and attempts at discussion that are completely out of left field and only serve as a means to let the class know that he’s smart. I just think it’s really hecking funny and this is the only thread that is even remotely related to it enough for me to make fun of him at.

  3. Anonymous says:

    No one was a wannabe
    It was so natural to do so, and no one felt enforced to look like X or Y or take inspiration of X outfit or Y outfit. It was just the default, something you wouldn’t think of much after certain age cause you have much more important things to think of and to concern yourself with.
    tldr, no fashionista fever, they realized it was not about the looks

  4. Anonymous says:

    Suit isn’t formal, it’s just the default clothing. It’s for daily life.

    Modern clothing is athletic clothing or hard labour clothing that’s supposed to be worn whilst doing sports or working on a building site.
    You wouldn’t wear an astronaut suit to the grocery store so why would you wear a construction workers suit or an olympic runners suit to the grocery store? The proper thing to wear to the grocery store is a suit and tie

  5. Anonymous says:

    Another thing is that synthetic bullshit hadn’t been invented yet so suits were wool by default and much comfier.
    I have four suits and the wool one I got at a thrift store is by far the most comfortable, and it looks the best. It would be the most expensive new of course, which is why synthetics "won" and now everyone thinks suits aren’t comfy.

  6. Anonymous says:

    A chess tournament is not a casual setting. Look at chess tournaments today, all wear collared shirts and suits. Unless it’s sponsored by Le epic gaming company or something

    • Anonymous says:

      See

      Based stupid, it’s a formal event BECAUSE they’re all wearing suits. The question is WHY. Pic related is the same event in 2018.

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