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*** No, you won't. What about venting? Structure? Silhouette? Canvassing? Pleats? All this stuff noticeably changes the look of a suit. Fashion is persistent and inescapable, even in conservative menswear.
*** Then again, fashion can ''also'' be consistent. The basic appearance/design/template of a suit has stayed more or less intact from the 19th Century.
* Likewise, neckties. Historically, they have varied in width from 1 inch up to 6 inches, according to the whims of fashion. The pendulum has just swung to the point where all those narrow ties from [[The Sixties]] and [[The Eighties]] were back in fashion in the early 2000s, but it's impossible to get away with an ultra-wide tie from [[The Seventies]] in any age. A fairly classic middle-ground lies between 3 and 3-and-a-half inches, but keep in mind that ties have also increased in ''length'' over the past 50 years: the near-death of the vest and the ever-lowering trouser waistband mean that old ties are simply too ''short'' unless you wear your pants up at your natural waist, which is near-impossible with what's currently{{when}} in fashion. (Of course, by the late-2010s/early 2020s, neckties had disappeared altogether in North America except in politics and upper management, so this particular "fashion" applies only to a very small group on that continent.)
** High-waistedness is coming back{{when}} for men and women, at least in America, and vests have just become extremely popular, possibly because of ''[[Mad Men]].''
* The dress uniforms worn by the Swiss Guard at the Vatican - usually reserved for parades and ceremonial occasions - haven't changed since the Renaissance. (The Guard wears a more modern uniform for routine work.)
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