Why did Europeans wear such wacky clothes from ~1500 to ~1800?

>>1359272
Colors were a symbol of status

Dyes were expensive

>>1359272
Because

They could

>>1359272
They wanted to show off.

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Because why not look totally fly?

>>1359279
I do find it amusing that IRL everybody at court, or who had a bit of money, probably looked like they had stepped out of of a technicolor movie staring Errol Flynn, as opposed to the current Game of Thrones/BBC's The Musketeers trend of "COVER EVERYTHING WITH BROWN AND LEATHER."

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They were peacocking

dandy swag

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>>1359272
>~1800
I think they had toned it down a bit by the seventeenth century.

>>1359647
>I do find it amusing that IRL everybody at court, or who had a bit of money, probably looked like they had stepped out of of a technicolor movie staring Errol Flynn

Usually, but sometimes a monarch would come in with a different taste. Like Mary I of England. She wore dark clothing so her court took her lead and chose sombre, dark clothing because she was boring like that.

>>1359272
suit and tie will look just as ridiculous eventually.

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>>1359727
>mfw people in the past didn't wear form-fitting unitards and tied ropes around their necks as "fashion"