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“The suit, as we know it today, developed in Europe as a protessional ruling class costume in the last third of the 19th century. Almost anonymous as a uniform, it was the first ruling class costume to idealise purely sedentary power. The power of the administrator and conference table… (As distinct, compared to previous upper class costumes, from the gestures of riding, hunting, dancing, duelling.)”