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How recent is the notion of age-appropriate fashion for differently aged adults? For example, would a 50-year-old French count in the 1770s be ridiculed for dressing like a 20-year-old in the same station in life, or were all wealthy people expect to wear the same latest fashions regardless of age?

by /u/JJVMT in /r/AskHistorians

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