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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Rich cunts then: 
Rich cunts now: 
Poor cunts then: 
Poor cunts now: 
Or to put it another way, nothing has changed. The upper classes still dress like wankers who sniff their own farts, and the lower classes still dress with whatever they can afford that works for them.
Ladies, What's stopping you from dressing like this
I am an 1,87m tall, somewhat broad shouldered dude over 40 with a bit of a beer belly and a beard (imagine a stereotypical lumberjack but working in IT)... what is stopping me dressing like that? Well... i don't want to see people around me clawing out their eyes.
Be the cognitohazard you don't want others to be!
I'm more of a summer/spring in my color scheme
Having a career. At home though, nothing :3
My penis would dangle out the bottom of the skirt.
There are ways to tuck.
Sounds like work.
Not really. It's actually not that hard.
I don’t have breasts like that
Not with that attitude!
Pretty sure only aristocrats dressed like that.
And wasn’t the makeup to hide chlamydia / syphilis etc?
Sure and perume was becase you didn't bathe ... And yet we still use both
I think it's also for the opposite? I mean, the white face, rosy cheeks and red lips were popularized due to the romantization of tuberculosis. The guy on the left could literally have tuberculosis looking at his face.
One of the many sources: https://historycollection.com/tuberculosis-became-the-victorian-standard-of-beauty/
Rich guys wearing really dour clothes is actually a relatively recent phenomenon in history. Up to the French Revolution the aristocrats were peacocked up to the max; maybe it was fear of the guillotine that saw their successors going around in North Face jackets.
There is absofukinglutely nothing stopping you from dressing like that, only yourself.
Don’t let the prospect of beheading get on the way of your dreams!
Mark Zuckerberg, who dresses pretty much like the guy on the right, then adds a watch worth $100k to indicate his status.
The pants shirts an hoodies the ultra wealthy wear are also often obscenely overpriced versions of the normal clothes. Like Luis Vuitton's plain tshirt, with a same color embossed logo on the front, for 700$. Or this one by Prada for 2500$ (its casmere)
Ugh, and this indoor plumbing and daily hygiene is such a chore.
Noble vs peasant.
wasn't the make up meant to hide the lesions and wigs to hide the peeling scalp and hair loss?
Maybe we have grown out as a society of that childish one-upping each other with made up rules?
Have you met society? Society is a petty bitch!
Please tell me there’s a /s in there somewhere.
I think they dropped a word there. I think "rich" was the word they dropped......
I’m wearing awesome socks. Those are anything but boring!
Casually forgetting that they didn't shower back then.
This is a man vs bear scenario, repainted to make the modern man look like what feminazis view us as. Simple as.
I do find it weird there's been this resurgence of fixation on superficial motifs being associated with masculinity, but the guys who parrot these views all have an appearance that screams, "I want to blend in and be invisible!"
Nothing masculine about tepid conformity.
See good buddy that's why you buy yourself thrift.
I wear suits that cost me 20 bucks that look better than what the president wears. Not that that's a high bar, but a worthy comparison.
