Yeah. On top of that, the extravagant fashion of the 17th century was a relatively short-lived trend in and of itself, so it's hardly as if this had always been how people dressed up until this "great male renunciation".

Ah I see. Well, sort of but not really. It's a very corny and dramatic term coined in the 30s (because of course) for what was really just a gradual change towards less extravagantly aristocratic fashion during the Enlightenment when the nobility declined in popularity. The closest thing to a conscious "renunciation" was during the French Revolution, when it became dangerous to look too much like a nobleman, but that's about it. This whole thing spanned several decades and wasn't really a movement or anything.

you tell me

It's at best misrepresenting statements and at worst just complete fabrication. That's sort of the Telegraph's whole deal. It's a tabloid rag that pretends to be a newspaper

it's the telegraph mate

From a 2021 article in The Telegraph lol

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The exact opposite happened btw

God I love reenactment