The Forgotten Splendour of Men’s Dress: A Reflection on Beauty, Gender, and History

Author - Brian Hawkeswood Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung There are moments, often when I linger before the mirror in the half-light of morning, that I find myself pondering an unspoken injustice—why beauty, in the language of dress, should have become the near-exclusive province of women in the modern world. For one cannot forget that this was not always the case. History, when turned back like the heavy pages of a forgotten missal, reveals centuries in which men rivalled women in their sartorial splendour, where garments were not merely coverings but declarations of power, sensuality, and the desire to belong to the theatre of the beautiful. In the Baroque courts of Europe , it was not the women who were m...