https://imgur.com/gallery/OMPqo
I'm no fashion historian. It's not perfect. I was just super bored. If you think you can do better, put it in a comment! I'd love to see what you can make!!
EDIT. u/TaakosGoodOutHere and u/Flidjet pointed out some fashion misconceptions I had about a couple of the dresses AND PROVIDED PICTURES TO PROVE IT. They're so smart :)
Sorry for going so blunt with the title. I myself am Pakistani. While there is βtraditional dressβ, the full-on versions of that dress is reserved for events and the such. Instead men and women in South Asia have modernized versions of traditional clothing that is accepted as everyday use. The women have waaaaaay more options than men, and Iβm sure you have an idea or something that comes to mind when you think South Asian dresses.
But men arenβt very limited either, and donβt often wear button-downs and ties and the sorts, because there are some pretty snazzy alternatives that arenβt too distracting or need to be kept for events and nights out. This, this, this, etc. There are definitely a few more styles, and amped up versions for events as well as comfy versions for sleeping.
However, everything Iβve seen regarding Russian fashion has been an all-or-nothing sort of thing. Most Russian traditional dress for men and women seem to be out-of-place from whatever Iβve absorbed from entertainment and how people look on the street in Russia. The kosovorotka would actually fly in Pakistan, but even that seems excessive for Russia. Is this really the case, or am I missing something?
It's just as the title says. It's just so odd how hard it is to find this information with pictures compared to American history of fashion.
If that is not possible, I'll be happy enough to see Irish fashion from the 19th century from both poor and wealthy classes.
Thank you to anyone who could help! Sorry for the poor grammar and spelling.
Just wondering
Also, how important is it to 'be attractive?' And in what way are people judged for their physical appearance?
The background is that I am a physician with a background in clinical research, I think this informs by approach to this topic and what I understand to be a rational thought process, in that knowledge is empirical if possible and the burden of proof is high. So I have recently been trying to study philosophy (again, as I took a few courses in college ~ 15 years ago) and I wanted a general primer on the subject. I was recommended Bertrand Russell's history of western philosophy as a good entry point to understand the development of (western) philosophy and general concepts of philosophy. As I understood this work is well respected, and it does do a fantastic job laying out the development of philosophy (even to the point of giving time to philosophical ideas that seem utterly ridiculous.) However, I found his dissection of some of the philosophical arguments to be arbitrary at times, and at other times he seemed to intentionally misrepresent the ideas. Besides the instances when he would reject ideas out of hand because he simply didn't like them (Hume) without giving any rational reason why they were wrong, he seemed to have a very emotional approach to a lot of the topics (especially political philosophy.) I also imagined that in the academic study of philosophy moral judgement would be completely suspended, and this is clearly not the case with Bertrand Russell. My questions are these- 1. Is the approach in this book typical in the study of philosophy? 2. Is this work regarded highly, and if so why? 3. Is there another general primer on philosophy that you recommend which is more heavy on the ideas and arguments and less on opinions and history?
PS: I am in no way suggesting I am more intelligent than Bertrand Russell, or that I am assaulting the academic study of philosophy in any way.
Thank you in advance to anyone who will take the time to reply.
Other: Portugal, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Czechia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, etc.
Alot of books that are famous nowadays are written from an American perspective or with American-influenced style of thinking. I'm looking for a book about certain monumental event, say, WWII, from the perspective of the "losers", like the Germans, Japanese or the Italians.
Books that are about the colonial west from the perspective of the colonised would be nice too
It is 2021. The Economic War declared against PRC has been on going for 4 years.
The scale and tally of this War is largely ignored by the Western media. Although there were general consensus among Western analysts that Trump's Trade War against China "did not achieve its goals" of (1) reducing trade deficit, and (2) reshoring manufacturing back to US, Western media largely avoided a deep assessment of costs and overall assessment of success/failure.
In retrospect, 4 years of the Economic War was a significant failure for US, if damages were truly assessed for both sides.
While 2021 is not marked end of the Economic War, US effectively agreed to a partial "ceasefire" via a "phase one truce agreement" with China in 2020 during last year of Trump administration.
In reality, the "phase one truce agreement" was nothing short of a temporary surrender declared as a victory.
The nature of the "phase one truce agreement" boils down to US agreed to lower tariffs slightly on Chinese goods, in exchange for China promising to buy more from US (which China has always promised to do).
This agreement is by analogy equivalent to Qing China (if US is Qing China) agreeing to allow England to continue to sell Opium in exchange for Qing Imperial government taking a cut of the Opium profit. (if Chinese goods are as addictive as opium).
Even Qing China wasn't incompetent and shameless enough to try to claim such an agreement as a victory. Yet, Western media were continually trying to look on the "bright side": i.e. that it damaged China's economy somehow, or it "isolated" China, etc.
To top off the "phase one truce agreement", Biden administration didn't want to do the walk of shame of rescinding it completely, refusing to acknowledge that it was a total failure. So instead, Biden administration is trying to hold China to the agreement, i.e. China should be at least made to buy more US goods. (So, China just bought some long term contracts on Natural Gas, like throwing another bone to US).
While that was happening, Trump administration rallied its "allies" (colonial minions) to also start new fronts of economic war against China. Many "allies" in Europe and Asia refused to join.
3 most enthusiastic Canon Fodders of US, were Canada, Australia and Taiwan.
Canada joined the Economic War by aiding US to arrest /kidnap Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou in December 2018. China quickly retaliated with various economic sanctions and arresting 2 Canad
... keep reading on reddit β‘I'd like to explore the topic a bit, byt I haven't find anything satisfactory.
