Why did men stop wearing high heels ?

[yurbud]

9. two related trends killed it: mass produced clothing and few truly manual labor jobs

The rich wore their fancy foofoo stuff to show that they were a cut above the rest of us, but as clothes became mass produced, anyone could buy a cheap knockoff of the stuff the rich wore, ruining the fun of it.

Also, wearing such nonsense was a way of showing that you didn't have to do manual labor like everybody else.

But as jobs requiring actually brute strength declined, guys instinctively sensed they could be replaced by women at any time--especially when women could be paid less to do the same job. So they had to dress more macho to prove to themselves they were men and had a reason to exist.

A guy who dresses like a woman (besides as a joke) reinforces that fear that mean aren't needed, and maybe even the idle rich felt that too.