Why did the shirt, jacket and tie become the international standard dress code for business and governments?

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Why did the shirt, jacket and tie become the international standard dress code for business and governments?

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Answer 1

So most people have talked about the origins of specific clothing but mostly missed the reason it is standard and little changing over many decades:

**Photography**

The earliest versions of “modern” suit attire became fashionable right around the same time photography was starting to become predominant.

This created a ‘common reality’ where most people could see what others looked like throughout the country and the world. The result is increasing levels of standardization and male fashion would become increasingly static especially in more formal context where less radical clothing (i.e. traditional clothing) will seem more appropriate. In fact length and bagginess are really the main changes to the western suit in over a 150 years now. By contrast there was more change in the 50 years before photography came about.