Originally posted by rilu
As for how the question relates to gender, I really don't know, since there are women on this forum - Flux, Interest1, and also Mona while she was posting here - who tend to avoid bright shades the same way male posters do; on the other hand, men on Superfuture willingly wear them. As do people dressing in the most traditional way when they're wearing what they consider casual clothes.
I'd say it leaves us with minimalism, restraint - or rather, ornamentation sliding towards less obvious aspects of clothes, like textures, cuts, bunching, layering... which are far from being minimalistic, in my humble opinion : how would raw edges be considered as a minimalistic feature when they are emphasized by fraying, for example ?
Those ornaments simply adress a more adverted eye, constituting a series of signs familiar only to the happy few having the required knowledge and sense of observation.
On the opposite, the use of colour would easily be considered as trivial and lazy, since anyone can notice.
Just an idea.
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