# Which of history’s fashions would you choose, if you could adopt any style? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 2, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-history-s-fashions-would-you-choose-if-you-could-adopt-any-style/1025312 "2025-12-02T00:18:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-history-s-fashions-would-you-choose-if-you-could-adopt-any-style/1025312/61 "2025-12-04T18:57:11Z")
Just once, I’d like to go around wearing samurai armor, in particular the style used by Date Masamune during the Sengoku period of Japanese history. Like Masamune, I’m blind in my right eye, so the eye patch he used would be especially fitting. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-history-s-fashions-would-you-choose-if-you-could-adopt-any-style/1025312/62 "2025-12-04T19:00:55Z")
A woman can’t do any better than our modern styles here in the United States, so I’'m just fine with the here and now. History is full of examples of the crap women had to endure in regard to how they had to dress. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-history-s-fashions-would-you-choose-if-you-could-adopt-any-style/1025312/63 "2025-12-04T19:09:31Z")
60s flowerchild look…riotous colour, bell bottoms, sandals and no bras 😉 [![](https://preview.redd.it/mamas-papas-michelle-phillips-monterey-pop-festival-1967-v0-m7ydrw5uvhcc1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=a1ecca93c5d047088e56ac014f24e5942d184636) ](https://preview.redd.it/mamas-papas-michelle-phillips-monterey-pop-festival-1967-v0-m7ydrw5uvhcc1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=a1ecca93c5d047088e56ac014f24e5942d184636) ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-history-s-fashions-would-you-choose-if-you-could-adopt-any-style/1025312/64 "2025-12-04T19:33:10Z")
Point taken, but I stand by my statement. LOL ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-history-s-fashions-would-you-choose-if-you-could-adopt-any-style/1025312/65 "2025-12-04T19:40:48Z")
That looks wearable. And yes, you can get it arbitrarily fancy ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-history-s-fashions-would-you-choose-if-you-could-adopt-any-style/1025312/66 "2025-12-04T19:45:34Z")
Although I can’t find any historical evidence, there’s the old trope of released convicts being issued cheap new suits to start fresh. I’d like to have a wardrobe of all 48 plus 1 federal from the mid-20th century [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-history-s-fashions-would-you-choose-if-you-could-adopt-any-style/1025312.md?page=3)