Sartorial Rebellion: The Macaroni Subculture of Georgian England

Long before punk rock or modern countercultures, how did young people rebel against the rigid, suffocating expectations of their society? In the mid-eighteenth century, wealthy British youths returning from their Grand Tours weaponized clothing, creating the bizarre and highly controversial Macaroni subculture. Dressed in towering, powdered wigs that required swords to balance, impossibly tight ...