Best Fashion Sense In History

>>12630994
The main goal of fashion in a general sense is affect (followed by function, as well as some more abstract artistic concepts), which is so contextual that it would be more of a sociohistorical question than a personal aesthetic preference one. So what I think you’re really asking is what time periods fashion is most aesthetically appealing to other anons in their contemporary perception of style. Am i correct? I apologize for the pedantry, but these are different discussions so I feel like communication might be improved by a clarification of goals

>>12630994
the western culture looked similar to middle eastern yeah ? pretty interesting. there are lots of references to middle eastern cultures in western names or other things.

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THE IMPERIAL ROMANS IN GENERAL; THE EMPIRE DURING THE THIRD CENTURY IN PARTICULAR, BECAUSE IT WAS SIMPLE, BUT NOT PRIMITIVE; SOPHISTICATED, BUT NOT SUPERFLUOUS.

BYZANTINE FASHION IS THE EPITOME OF SUPERFLUOUS FASHIONSTYLE —SUPREMELY DECADENT—; A CONCRETE MANIFESTATION OF THE PREVALENT ETHICOMORAL DEGENERATION OF THAT PEOPLE.

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>>12630994
I prefer the baroque fashion. It's so grand. But I wouldn't drag the way people dress in their time and place down to their personal taste, but more to the structure and features of the society they live in.

Despite the interest in fashion people on here have, if you look in the waywt you can very clearly pinpoint the time and society they all live in because they don't manage to distinguish themselves past the frame of current broad trends. If people on here can't make themselves look 20 years out of place when trying how could someones personal taste have them distinguish themselves completely from the style of an entire society in the past? Broadly style will be influenced slightly by the general taste of the wearers but it's more independent features in the society that decides how it will evolve on a larger note, the means of production, the economical standing of the class, the role it plays etc (if flashy clothes is how you'd get attention in that society then it will steer that way, but maybe strong warriors are more important and then youd get prestige for war stuff not related to fashion instead, and less focus would be on clothes)

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>>12630994
Ancient egyptian. Elegant and light

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>>12631040
Yeah, that's what I like about byzantine armor, it's like a mixture between roman and arabian/turkish armor.

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>>12630994
Romans for sure.

SPQR

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>>12632584

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>>12632587

>>12631064
Pants are barbaric

>>12631481
You do realise those arabian/turkish armour styles came from byzantine armours, not vice versa?