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The answer here is to embrace historybounding. Even embracing the masculine 19th century styles we still have opens up a lot of colour and shillouette options. A colourful tailored dress greatcoat with heavy waist suppression and full skirts is a great fit, for instance.
And of course there's always the 1970s
Though of course even here there's a lot of feminine styles to try too. It just gets more equal (and arguably tilted towards men before 1600)
Becoming a RETVRN guy but for Beau Brummell
Zack Pinsent already took that era.
Ugh fine
Becoming a RETVRN guy for landsknecht fashion
Well how else are we going to get enough pikemen to form a Tercio in the revolution!?
Exactlyyyyyyy
My mind immediately went to Matt's description of Martin Van Buren's wardrobe, lol. Lace-tipped, orange-tinted silk cravats sound cool.
Please attach pics. I'm curious.
For modern stuff, something like
For a more 19th century look, I've always been a fan of the androgynous look of the 1830s (When feminine looks were hyper-feminine to compensate)
Tight, steel corseted jackets with raglan shoulders, pleated pants for wide hips, 2.5 inch heeled Chelsea Boots (Elastic sides, very-modern!) and burgundies, dark greens and blues, russets, plums, and loudly coloured check pants.
Obviously that stuff is hard to find or even sew today, given you need the skills of both 18th century and modern tailors to make the jackets. But you can lean into an archaic shilouette and raid both gender's racks at the store to gesture towards earlier, less rigid style languages.
Cool. I want to dress like that now.
Excellent, honestly I just want to walk down the street wearing this and not look odd.
Let's hang out and do it together!