Would gothy-style, belt-heavy designs work well here? I imagine Victorian women didn't rotate clothes at the rate implied here. This seems just ... bad
My wife actually buys her clothes from places like Aloria or Celtic Web Merchant, where you can get good, solid cotton and linen dresses. These can keep going for many, many years. But the medieval style doesn't suit me. I want to show off my legs :P
(The first dress my wife gave me was one of those, a large, red early medieval style dress. It is incredibly solid, but it makes me feel like an extra from Handmaid's Tale.)
Guy running shorts often have draw strings, but I guess then the pants aren’t vacuum formed to your thighs, so that may still mot be what you want? Or… bunches up waistline fabric, bleh.
There's no benefit in producing robust clothing that can be washed and worn over many years if the populace at large is unwilling to pay for that robustness.
You'll just spend money to get provide a feature very few people actually care about and you'll hurt your competitiveness.
Much of the population was trained to be good little consumers and that's just what they are doing.
That’s not what I asked. I asked if gothy-style belt-heavy clothes would work to handle the vast array of bit of clothing might be obligated to handle, while still looking its intended style.
