<story><title>Great Male Renunciation</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Male_Renunciation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jensson</author><text>Bright colors used to be a sign of quality, everything expensive had tons of colors. Industrial revolution changed that, now bright colors are associated with cheap toys instead because they are used to cover deficiencies in the production process.&lt;p&gt;So it makes sense that people who care about quality moved away from colorful things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ulizzle</author><text>No, It’s not about that. This was a cultural reaction to the excesses and cruelty of the French ruling classes.&lt;p&gt;And both men and women changed their styles, Im not sure why they don’t mention that. No one wanted to be mistaken by a jacobin and have a bomb thrown at your lap. Women stopped imitating Marie Antoinette way before she was beheaded in the pangs of birth of the reign of terror&lt;p&gt;The obvious historical parallels are obvious because what generally happens is that chaos can only build up so much until the people rebel and kill everyone in power. That’s why the Egyptians mentioned “maat” (order) all the time, but there are some very good movies on this time period even on netflix</text></comment>
<story><title>Great Male Renunciation</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Male_Renunciation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jensson</author><text>Bright colors used to be a sign of quality, everything expensive had tons of colors. Industrial revolution changed that, now bright colors are associated with cheap toys instead because they are used to cover deficiencies in the production process.&lt;p&gt;So it makes sense that people who care about quality moved away from colorful things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dehrmann</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s probably not cheap toys as much as the rise of synthetic dyes generally meant color was no longer a mark of cost. The denim community still likes indigo because it fades, but that could just be signifier that it&amp;#x27;s authentic.&lt;p&gt;It could also just be that color attracts attention. With birds, it&amp;#x27;s often the male that&amp;#x27;s more colorful. See peafowl.</text></comment>