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As the eighteenth century came to a close, the bourgeois male underwent, as J.C. Flugel describes, "the great masculine renunciation." It was, Flugel continues, on the whole, the single "most remarkable event in the whole history of dress." Yuniya Kawamura affirmed in "Fashion-ology" that men renounced their right to the "brighter, gayer and more varied forms of ornamentation"
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