@blogdiva@mastodon.social1. this one should have been obvious to me, but spelling it out brought clarity: Europeans, for millennia, developed garments that were, generally, gender neutral. then, the #pandemic of the #plague of 1328 happened and things changed.
2. he goes a bit into the #etymology of the word MODA/MODE, but doesn’t explore it in English even though he quotes several English laws about dress. i reckoned that #fashion in english is top down, whereas #moda in Romance languages is bottom up, so…
