I love fashions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and fun fact: men were every bit as into fashion, if not more so, than were women. In the days when an outfit could cost as much as a house, one wore one’s wealth and image on one’s back. Here’s a little picture show for you, with some of my most favorite crazy, outlandish men’s fashions. First, the sixteenth century: A And moving into the seventeenth century: And just one more, a jump to the early nineteenth but I couldn’t resist showing you these absurdly tight pants, in the era before stretch: