Why Do People Like Fascist Uniforms So Much?

[@alexslote8775]

Vaush cleverly tricking his viewers into listening to another fashion rant by disguising it as historical commentary

[@fatcat22able]

I just got stealthed by Vaush, ama

[@igotadildoinmyassrnbut8104]

Literally I’m so sick of it vaush is NOT frugal aesthetics

[@blarghblargh]

@@igotadildoinmyassrnbut8104 oh yeah? so what are you going to do about it?

[@SeeStuDo]

This gave me a much needed giggle, ty

[@aForkfulOfGold]

@@blarghblargh Cry and moan and shit and piss mainly It's what I would do

[@haydenbob5974]

Hot take, WWI German/late Austrohungarian uniforms looked way better than Nazi uniforms. They had the same cool helmets, with less of an “I’m here to kill you for no particular reason” vibe.

[@dmman33]

Correct

[@desmondtheneworder918]

Absolutely based take

[@curranfrank2854]

A lot of WW1 uniforms were good, lot of heavy cloaks and jackets

[@danieltobin4498]

Correct!

[@Metaljacket420]

That Italian one is a cloak not a cape, the difference is it covers shoulders with opening at the front and can have hoods. Legitimately one of the most practical and versatile pieces of clothing ever made.

[@HarryDirtay]

Bring back woolen cloaks!

[@dom1373]

Who?

[@pancakes8670]

Those outfits look amazing. I love how the red stripe on the pants matches the red shoulder patches. Anyways they're cops so fuck them, but you know. Drip is drip.

[@SeruraRenge11]

@@pancakes8670 The gendarme are less cops and more soldiers who have jurisdiction over civilian affairs.

[@comyuse9103]

@@HarryDirtay fuck yeah! i own one and it is just so good, and the fashion blows jackets out of the water.

[@537monster]

The fact that Americans ridiculed Nixon for his weird pretorian guard uniform he wanted for the White House really is a representation of one of the better parts of American culture.

[@jfarrar19]

When was the last time the Secret Service got a raise?

[@devinnie7572]

@@jfarrar19 They're federal employees so... every year I am pretty sure.

[@pancakes8670]

​@@jfarrar19Even then, Secret Service men just wear regular suits a lot of the time.

[@SeruraRenge11]

@@pancakes8670 Well yeah, wouldn't you want the president's bodyguards to not be as you know, easy to point out? Then they can protect the president from a more hidden position.

[@snapgab]

I disagree actually. You guys are ridiculously nationalistic, you SHOULD have crazy uniforms. You manage to have the worst of both worlds, all the downsides of nationalism but none of the upsides like over the top uniforms and other such wacky stuff.

[@WompaStompaCyn]

Friendship ended with nazi hats. Now Italian capes are my best friend.

[@bbutler3230]

the thing is that i just learned watching this that Hugo Boss wasn't a famous German fashion designer, he was a business man who named a clothing company after him self. its a lot like saying that a film was animated by Walt Disney and thinking "Wow, Walt sure is a talented animator to have animated this all himself".

[@Gorgovoid173]

Black and red create a nice villain aesthetic. And I think it's cool. That's literally all it boils down to, in my case. And as you stated, it literally doesn't even have to be a specifically "nazi" uniform. Just black and red, with a cool coat of arms and I think that's what most people mean.

[@Fredric_Cedrich]

I remember watching Sargon drool over the Nazi uniforms & it was so cringe as he was saying “nobody likes to say so but everybody deep down knows they’re cool” in his pompous put on accent.

[@jBread28]

I mean he's right

[@comyuse9103]

@@jBread28 not at all, _but the Italians_

[@tn420animations9]

@@jBread28 no

[@RacismIsMentalillness]

@@jBread28found the disingenuous contrarian

[@jBread28]

@@RacismIsMentalillness People who don't like Nazi drip 'because Nazi' *are* the disingenuous contrarians

[@kai_plays_khomus]

A friend of mine purchased a black german marine uniform jacket which whose design was retained from a SS uniform cut. He looked great in it - but he was a goth and because it didn't display any markings, patches or shit it just dissolved into his style, you wouldn't have recognized it.

[@DudesterGX]

People shitting on the US Military white hats: I think it looks good, but also consider that: 1.) Its part of the uniform for dress 2.) The clean all white hat is very striking and is so because its a very clean white. It looks really easy to get dirty, and I think it being clean can be a sign of discipline.

[@beliarioc9472]

All of the James Somerton types are just bringing their weird fetishes into this. All nuances and other reasons that are theoretically possible are hereby rejected. Thank you

[@Sashitoge]

Talking about gay eroticisation of nazi uniforms, I wonder how much Touko "Tom of Finland" Laaksonen's homoerotic art of men in them played into their pop culture relevance. He was a soldier in the Finnish army during WW2 and thought the Nazi officer uniforms were the hottest, even though he also said he despised the ideology. So there might be an actual connection there, of the aesthetic being a gay culture thing.

[@SeruraRenge11]

@@Sashitoge Leather culture as it is wouldn't exist without Tom and his direct inspiration was German uniforms, you can't separate them. The reason Vaush thinks it looks gay is explicitly because Tom was the one who made it gay, which is funny to me.

[@jasonfenton8250]

​​​@@Sashitoge You know, before and definitely after WWI there was a big gay movement in Germany with many different factions and points of view. Some of these were definitely proto-fascistic and saw homosexual behavior as a kind of virile bonding between warriors, akin to the Theban Sacred Band and similar examples. Some future nazi bigwigs were also regulars at popular gay bars.

[@SeruraRenge11]

@@jasonfenton8250 The Sacred Band was of Thebes, not Alexander's forces. In fact Alexander's father Philip II was the one who wiped them out as a unit.

[@jasonfenton8250]

​@@SeruraRenge11 Oh yeah, I got them mixed up. I'm a little rusty on my ancient history, edited.

[@SeruraRenge11]

Hey now, Touko Laaksonen aka Tom of Finland, our national treasure, knew good fashion when he saw it. As he famously said in defense of drawing homoerotic art of men in Nazi uniforms after serving alongside them in the Winter War and WW2, "In my drawings I have no political statements to make, no ideology. I am thinking only about the picture itself. The whole Nazi philosophy, the racism and all that, is hateful to me, but of course I drew them anyway-they had the sexiest uniforms!" Although, I'm just going to take a guess and say that fascists don't want to hear a gay man say to them, "girl you look so sexy in that"

[@HarryDirtay]

Praxis

[@Mankster23]

Ernst Rohm has entered the chat

[@JamesMorgan-ne8qu]

Some of those fascists had style. Goring helped design some of his flamboyant uniforms. Adolf dressed like a right dork though, and Himmler looked ridiculous no matter what he wore.

[@lljkgktudjlrsmygilug]

The Nazis had the advantage of being at the height of both sophistication and mass production of clothing while also being made before existence and subsequent need for modern body armour. These suits would look a lot less fancy with Kevlar over them, unless they all look like Warden from R6.

[@adorabell4253]

Most of the nice uniforms weren’t as mass produced as all that. They were special officer uniforms. Check the enlisted feldgrau, not that fancy. Honestly, not as good looking as the Soviet uniforms which, due to the top being worn over the pants, avoided that weird ballooning look.

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

Also the nazis didn't really embrace mass production like the allies. They were still hand sewing fighter seats in 42. I imagine that probably contributed to both the idea that they made high quality stuff and the fact that their production levels weren't actually that impressive.

[@hectortorrents9431]

The true awesome german military uniforms were the ones they wore in ww1 the ones with spikes and skulls. They had so much personality

[@obinator9065]

Prussia -- when a military has a country

[@Dreigonix]

Hah, yes. There’s a reason the Death Korps of Krieg went with the WW1 Prussia aesthetic to make the scariest of Gas Mask Mooks. XD

[@rasmusholmgaardnielsen6554]

DDoKs uniform is actually a mashup of ww1 uniforms. Their coat is as an example French

[@Metaljacket420]

Swiss Guard isn't leveling gear, that's the raid tier set for the Paladin class.

[@SeruraRenge11]

That outfit screams I DON'T CARE HOW DUMB IT LOOKS, IT'S BIS AND MY RAIDLOGGING TAKES PRECEDENCE OVER FASHION

[@derwaldjunge]

They do have modern guns, though.

[@planets9102]

Nah, gonna disagree here with vaush. When decently fitting the SS-officer uniforms look really evil in like a cool/stylish supervillain kind of way.

[@commandercorl1544]

The SS uniforms looked nearly identical to the Wehrmacht uniforms from 1942-1945, the black was phased out in 1942 and the only difference became the collar tabs and the skull on the cap.

[@planets9102]

@@enstarrie333 Lmao this is a socialist icon

[@revelaitons3959]

@@planets9102 Yeah, imagine thinking red and black icons are suspicious in a vaush comment section. Where did all these libs come from?

[@Xfire209]

Propably because stylish supervillains are made with the image of the SS officer uniform in mind

[@MCKevin289]

@@enstarrie333 It’s a reference to a German antifascist movement called the Three Arrows movement. It was a socialist led movement. Not to mention that red and black are the colors of many libertarian socialist movements, like the CNT-FAI.

[@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan]

Not liking those uniforms is the contrarian take really

[@dmman33]

And the correct one. Monarchies are better at drip than any fascist

[@zipzapper0]

They're the best look for a villain, incredibly punchable

[@OscarLangleySoryu]

Frankly, it's probably because they're meant to look imposing, whereas say our Navy or Marines dress uniforms, while also sharp and fancy, are meant to look more shining are heroic than intimidating. Intimidating is a popular look for high fashion

[@SeruraRenge11]

I mean, they're dress uniforms, no one wears that in combat anyway. Look what the average Wehrmacht boot on the ground wore, it looks like it was designed first and foremost for practicality. Gray fatigues with the iconic stahlhelm, really isn't that different from what soldiers wear today.

[@OscarLangleySoryu]

@@SeruraRenge11 not sure how this is relevant, not trying to be rude just need clarification

[@SeruraRenge11]

@@OscarLangleySoryu My point was more that in both the German and US cases, I think Vaush misses the bigger point when he says that "it doesn't look good when it's not for a photo op" when like the whole point of wearing them is for photo ops.

[@OscarLangleySoryu]

@@SeruraRenge11 Oh word, TY I knew there was something I missed. Yeah I get you now

[@headoverheels88]

Classic political science texts identify (correctly in my opinion) that a fundamental tenant of fascism is prioritization of aesthetics. It's simultaneously a recruitment tool, a social cohesion tool (make everyone look the same), a tool to exclude marginalized, signify hierarchy, and so on and on.

[@NerdyGuyRanting]

I am pretty sure that all the talk about how good the uniforms look is just like 90% that red and black makes for a cool color combo.

[@BreakinFire73]

Vaush buys one shirt that doesn’t have an anime girl on it and a suit jacket that isn’t from Express Factory and suddenly considers himself a fashion guru

[@mischi9203]

a couple things on which hes wrong about the german ww2 uniforms, actually a lot of them looked almost tailored even on normal soldiers, the way the uniforms were produced was in every sizes plus even tho something was for example made in the size L could have up to 5cm of difference even tho it was the same size, so a soldier would usually take on 3 different uniforms in the same size and take the one that fits the best, the german nva after the war also used this method

[@adamplentl5588]

Seems completely beside the point but ok.

[@Rahul_G.G.]

also in that day everybody got thier shit tailored,

[@Mankster23]

The other thing is they were made of WOOL which holds creases worse then cotton.

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

Not exactly the most efficient way of doing things

[@Asporez]

7:55 This is a field parade uniform, the sleeves indicates his rank in this case Captain. field parade uniforms is the uniform a soldier wears when they parade while deployed in the combat zone, because 1939 british general officer thought that would be a thing in future wars.

[@RealmRabbit]

I think the silver eagle on the black hat is just very aesthetically pleasing, like take away all the meaning and what not it does look like a pretty cool hat with a cool insignia...

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

I like the Australian rising sun a lot (even if i think it would be better without the crown.

[@pancakes8670]

I genuinely think it's the context that they were Nazis. Other Fascist groups like the Spanish Franco had better uniforms imo, and even outside of Fascism a lot of militaries have amazing looking uniforms. However, the N@zis are taboo and I think thats what draws their uniforms more attention. Like Vaush said, it's not actually what the N@zis wore, it's about the N@zis themselves.

[@neosodon9895]

It's that Nazi's are more recognizable from being the most common villain's in film and pop culture. Other military uniforms look cool but don't get as much screen time.

[@AzarathMetreon]

Vaush: “Why do people like the uniforms?” Also Vaush: picks the ugliest possible standard issue instead of the sharp af officers’ unis.

[@user-lp7tx1fe6t]

Literally 40 seconds after that he shows an officier

[@AzarathMetreon]

@@user-lp7tx1fe6tNo, he showed a random fat guy wearing a very badly fitting replica.

[@WeenusMcMenace-dm6ep]

Did you watch 20 seconds afterwards when he mentions that they didn't exactly have well fitted uniforms tailor made to their bodies? In all likelihood there were more uniforms like the one Vaush showed than the Hugo Boss drawings or propaganda pics that the party circulated

[@Kriegter]

Yeah thats the point there are random fat guys wearing badly fitted uniforms in the war​@@AzarathMetreon

[@MustYouHaveAUsername]

@@Kriegter That's a bad take though. The average German officer would not have been a fat guy, that is just the elite. Just look at the way Nazi rallies and propaganda was instigated. They build entire buildings or even cities with a certain classical style. It was not just a bunch of uniforms it was a holistic approach to the style that made it stand out. Nazis copied/adapted it from the Roman Empire (which is where the Third Reich is coming from, it was the third iteration of the Holy Roman Empire (of the German Nation)). The Nazi greeting is literally a variant of Ave Caesar. Many nations copied (parts) of it later on for their propaganda. The fact that their uniforms were designed at all made them stand out. The Brits were just wearing brown potato sacks at the time (very utilitarian). Just google "1930s Nazi Germany Nuremberg Rally in color" and tell me that that is not an impressive show of force (not in a military sense). Image search "Berlin Hitler’s 50th birthday midnight" or look at the cover of In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson (the picture of the illuminated Brandenburg Gate). It all just oozes a certain style. Horrible ideology, the worst, but you can't mock their CI. It's top notch.

[@Asporez]

9:19 This is the officers college uniform, same as US Westpoint they wear the uniform of militias of linear warfare doctrine (18th-19th century) because the officer conduct and drill doctrines are essentially the same... those uniforms can cause quite a bit of cultural awkwardness for example during the civil war rebels adopted the militia uniform so people at Westpoint all look like confederate officers from the civil war.

[@NoConsistency]

I feel like peoples perception of nazi uniforms are warped by their representation in media. I showed some friends the Hellboy movies recently and during the first movies cold open, all they could do was say the Kroenen looked badass as hell. And he does. But he does also because he is an artistic interpretation of an ss officer and their uniform, not the real thing.

[@Wimikk]

So when my city did a semi-professional run of Sound of Music last year, I was in the ensemble. (Obviously I was the “semi-“ part of that.) We were renting high-quality replica Wermacht and SS uniforms from the Stratford Theatre Festival, made using the same materials and designs as the Nazis did. What I noticed: 1. I fucking hated every second in costume. So uncomfortable. 2. The media representation factor is real. Waiting in the wings, our silhouettes on the backstage walls were cut right from a 1980s action movie. 3. The wool and padded lining combined with the belt made every man wearing it look good. Skinny guys, athletic guys, old guys with a belly - their shoulders, chest, and waist looked better than they did in street clothes. 4. Well-made clothes just look good. High quality materials look good. My mum still has my grandfather’s RCAF greatcoat. It looks and feels so good to put on. Craftsmanship 🙃

[@CapitalTeeth]

You had my attention first at your opinion that they look similar to every other uniform. But then you said they only look cool because nazi's preserved only these images that they look coll on, like wtf? scroll for more than 5 seconds on google dude.

[@vampirewarioo8483]

The color combination of black and this very striking red and the silver neck insignia it works together well it was literally designed by a graphic designer.

[@vampirewarioo8483]

Hugo Boss himself was an NSDAP member. Ss uniforms look pretty good tho, like the higher the rank the better they look. Look at the uniform from an SS_sturmbannführer, it looks good I hate nazis but the one you’re showing is very low ranking and wasn’t tailored nearly as precise as the officers and generals uniforms.

[@adamplentl5588]

Everyone knows Winged Hussars had the coolest costumes.

[@Happytohelp_]

>Complains about contrarianism >Lays out opinion contrary to the mainstream

[@revelaitons3959]

Yeah that was a bit of projection I think

[@MomsterGirl]

Damn you editors are fast, I was just watching this on stream!

[@jungfrublomma]

When I were studying in Japan many years ago a band I frequently used to watch live had red armbands with their logo on as part of their stage outfits. They even sold them as merch and the fans used to wear them at their concerts. They had a very Japanese school uniform inspired look, so the red armband worked perfect for their style. I even bought one of these armbands to wear at their shows, but now it feels kinda weird owning one as I know that people will probably just link it to the n*zis if they see it.

[@notaspy1227]

I feel like the Nazis were the only ones to be somewhat successful with the creation of their uniforms. As time goes on fascist fashion choice has gotten worse. Until modern-day Maga Republicans have just stuck a fork in it.

[@SeruraRenge11]

Yeah because they get an actual fashion company to design it.

[@HarryDirtay]

Red hat, ass crack. Hallelujah brother! Only uniform I need! 😂

[@harvesterofeyes8813]

Same with their flag designs.

[@iana6713]

@@HarryDirtay And the Trump bumper sticker on their beat-up truck.

[@notaspy1227]

@@harvesterofeyes8813 I mean maybe, but the Nazi flag isn't much better than the Maga crowds so debateable.

[@goldmandrummer]

They love it because the aesthetic _is_ conformity, and conformity is a virtue to them. They get special feelings inside when they see this combination of the rigidity of a suit, the ruggedness of a military uniform, signifiers of power, all combined with their beloved aesthetic of conformity. It's the depiction of their ideology being on top of the power hierarchy. It's their visualization of having won what they care about most, being on top of the hierarchy they see as inevitable and/or good.

[@scottfw1193]

Vaush on videogame and fascist aesthetics is the 2024 content I didn't expect but have surprisingly enjoyed 😊

[@davitdavid7165]

Idk vaish, trenchcoats are sick and red and black is a cool colorscheme in general

[@piccalillipit9211]

*I AM A BESPOKE TAILOR OF MENS HISTORICAL CLOTHING* 1890-1940 I am literally "QUALIFIED" to answer this - like it or not - Na3i uniforms are objectively THE BEST. There are a hundred design and colour reasons, but the main one is they tried out different designs and colours and tested them for how well the photographed; the Na3i were obsessed with media and publicity and they went to great lengths to MAKE SURE their uniforms looks amazing in the photographs in the newspapers - if you look at colourised photos ----> Or extent examples, they dont look AS GOOD as you imagine they did. they have some weird red/brown's. But they were chosen to look good in the black-and-white newspaper footage of the day. and they had genuinely talented fashion designers do the uniforms. Goe88els has a PhD in Theatre production. These guys really knew what they were doing.

[@historyandpoliticsexplaine4876]

I think its weird you didnt understand people DEFINITELY mean the SS uniforms. Not standard Wehrmacht. The black with the totenkoph

[@IronReptile]

It's because it's black, villain, historical, military, designed by brand name etc. I know that will sound edgy but that's I think is the main reason.

[@BlisaBLisa]

thats not edgy they were literally designed to look evil lol

[@BenjaminTheUndecided]

people who say the krauts had any bit of drip have CLEARLY never seen regular french infantry with those greatcoats.

[@gamedude412]

As someone with over 400$ of references photo books of Ww2 uniforms the German had over 500 pages of just ss camouflage patterns. The us uniform is basically the same shade of olive drab with autisticly small changes in thread sizes and factory patterns place of buttons. I’m a model builder and painter

[@John-qv5ux]

The Virgin multiple camouflage patterns vs. the chad M1943 uniform HBT in Olive Green 7. Olive Green smells like victory.

[@giraffeorganic]

Lil bro really asking why someone would like something that is visually appealing😂

[@mothgoth0]

I have an irrational love for uniforms in general, but in the case of the SS ones the thing that makes them dope is that they're black. Design-wise they don't stand out much compared to other contemporary uniforms, but black looks bolder than green

[@StruggleGaming]

Nah for the time the Nazi uniform was a drip that went hard, then the US Navy and Marine dress uniform was in a similar vein but in black and red and white respectively.

[@h4xorzist]

Military Drip List: about Napoleonic Spanish (and colonial, see Bolivar) officers Italian MP modern German dress uniform SS USSR Officer (not entirely sure which position it is) Wehrmacht everybody else Bottom: Royal Guards UK

[@unamless9229]

They just look neat

[@piccalillipit9211]

*YES IT HAS TO BE VIEWED IN BLACK AND WHITE* the uniforms were specifically designed to look good in BLACK AND WHITE NEWSPAPER PHOTOS ON TALL BLONG YOUNG MEN You can not say its a bad uniform cos it looks bad on a fat middle-aged man in 2022. The Na3is took great care to create uniforms that looked good in the media of the time.

[@joshuacampbell1625]

Look guys, say what you want about Fascists, and I do, but they had a killer aesthetic

[@blarghblargh]

which ones

[@harvesterofeyes8813]

Keyword: Had

[@commandercorl1544]

I disagree. Their uniforms were generally pretty bland, and looked identical to every other country, minus the emblems they slapped on everywhere they could.

[@RacismIsMentalillness]

Except they were fascists, so their aesthetic was lame garbage by default.

[@plumcakey]

I love how everyone missed the pun in this comment

[@ZanraiKid]

The ones that get me are the Rhodesian bush soldier simps. The shorts never looked good. You’re just possibly blonde and tanned enough to look good in Bermuda shorts and definitely fascist enough to make them your personality.

[@HarryDirtay]

I know it gets hot there but they just looked ridiculous. "Daisy Dukes" would have been more intimidating.

[@zacheryeckard3051]

USSR greatcoats were super pretty, too. Fascists are obsessed with aesthetics, why wouldn't we expect good fashion?

[@IndependentObserver]

Thesis: "JITLER, BLITLER, WITLER, GITLER, TRITLER, MITLER, NATIVE AMERICANITLER" Antithesis: 3 hours of autisic ramblings about clothes Synthesis: 3 hours of autisic ramblings about nazi clothes

[@davidwolanski8704]

Damn I have an almost identical jacket to the one Vaush called "GAY. GAY, GAY, GAY GAY GAY GAY. GAY". Feels good to be seen. Bi erasure is real.

[@vincenta8652]

SS uniforms slap I have a coat that looks eerily similar and everyone likes it Mine has shoulder pads and contours to my body. With crazy cool looking buttons

[@commandercorl1544]

Okay, kraut.

[@cobraglatiator]

USMC enlisted dress blues are sick. enlisted> officer cause the officer coats remove all the red, just leave a white stripe at the top of the collar and plain white pants. italian military police look sick AF too. i mean, the cloaks really help.

[@ericsmith5919]

Specifically the NCO dress blues. Blood stripe + red and gold rank insignia on shoulders = peak aesthetic. The officer blues look too Navy with all the white IMO. No red piping even, which is the coolest part of the uniform.

[@cobraglatiator]

@@ericsmith5919 exactly. i can get past the white pants, but removing the red piping? come on man.

[@ericsmith5919]

@@cobraglatiator I feel bad for the Navy guys in their little Popeye hats and backwards bibs wearing that god-awful all-white abomination of a uniform. I swear, if you were deliberately trying to make a uniform look at stupid as possible you couldn't beat Navy Whites.

[@elloingo]

honestly imho the best military fashion item from the early 20th century was the capes and ponchos

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

18th century British uniform looks great too

[@thepulp80s]

Nothing looks as good as modern day US Marine dress blues.

[@oatdilemma6395]

Because they're stylish, sharp, and esoteric. Next.

[@CoolExcite]

For me, it's how cool the uniforms looked in The Producers

[@meprivate6923]

Most of the details of the military dress uniforms have largely been the same since the late 1930s in the US military. Yes, there have been changes and updates, but it's still largely the same.

[@Criiies]

I think that the way they look might be a factor in why people like the way they look

[@Manta665]

Isn't the example in the beginning a Wehrmacht-uniform, as in - regular army - uniform and very similar to the Reichswehr of the pre-N*zi era? - I figured the whole Hugo Boss thing was only relevant to the design of the units belonging directly to the regime of the 3rd Reich, as in SS-uniforms. You know? Leather coats and black uniforms and stuff? - Also, please everybody watch Dan Olson's great video on how Leni Riefenstahl and others __designed__ the visual aesthetics of the N*zi party. I'd say the uniform discourse is intertwined with that!

[@gudboah4688]

I don’t know how anyone could look at the American army uniforms of ww2 and say there’re not drippy.

[@JustSkram]

Pretty sure people fawn over it because of the layering factor, the colors compliment and make the layered pieces stand out more. Most people don't do more than a cringy tshirt and jeans so anything past that will look "cool".

[@jvniperrr]

The blue WW1 french uniforms look infinitely more drippy than anything the nazis had to offer in my opinion

[@commandercorl1544]

Absolutely! Even their toned down pastel blue ones looked immaculate in the field.

[@SeruraRenge11]

Yeah sadly those blue coats with red pants more often than not got them killed because it made them stand out like a sore thumb. There's a reason the British switched to khaki like right before the war.

[@taza257]

you can't be serious

[@taza257]

you can't be serious

[@AGoatDemon98]

Ayo mad respect for the Belzebubs pfp

[@bodhisattvadaiji8816]

Tomb of the unknown soldier uniform is just normal dress uniform in the Army with the addition of the cap, belts and shades

[@OscarLangleySoryu]

Simply the colour black sometimes is enough too

[@buba119]

Early WWI French uniforms are goated

[@AnonJuggerbot]

Fun fact about that medieval-looking unit: They are the Swiss Guard, and only 189 strong against a combined army from multiple countries, they saved the Pope from an attempt on his life during the 1527 sack of Rome by holding a defensive position long enough for him to escape. A lot of them died doing so. To honor them, the Vatican vowed to maintain their unit in perpetuity, and to this day, that unit wears the same uniform and trains with the same weapons that the Swiss Guard did five hundred years ago. Sabaton actually made a song about them called The Last Stand. They are pretty rad.

[@communications23]

Vaush commissions new, better nazi uniforms arc

[@alexlutz5594]

Yugopnik made some videos on the nazi uniform which I really loved and broke down why fascists love the uniform, and how it projects power. Pretty sweet

[@grindcoreninja6527]

It's the black, red and knee high boots. And god damnit I was tricked into a fashion video.

[@austinhowley3907]

I think it’s common for military officers to have their stuff super fitted. But yes the uniform is meh, me personally I think it helped keep alive by the fact George Lucas kinda used the style in some of his movies for baddies

[@nehukybis]

This is a nerdy aside on that Nixon white house presidential guard uniform, but that holster only makes sense if you're a cavalryman riding across three states in the nineteenth century. That flap is there to keep the old timey gunpowder in your revolver from getting wet when it rains. Totally unnecessary with modern cartridge ammo, and if you have to draw your gun in a hurry the flap just gets in the way.

[@souledgekirby]

10:51 It's gold, Jerry, GOLD!

[@MrEiniweini]

Active duty uniforms are not allowed to be tailored as they are designed to be functional. You will actually be charged if you do that. I am pretty sure that the Australian military does not even allow the higher ranking officers to tailor even their dress uniform (hence the name uniform, to all conform to the same standard.)

[@banta-pd8zj]

That austere big brother art with Mussolini's visage gazing emptily over the masses is indicative of the era, but before Fascism became established and still had the legitimacy of being revolutionary the art of proto fascism was undeniably stunning. It couldn't last because conformity ruled the day. Check out the Futurists.

[@devinnie7572]

I always assumed the praising of Nazi fashion was a meme. Look pretty similar to other uniforms of the time period.

[@stephennootens916]

I was always it was more a fetish thing that came out of Nazi exploitation films of the 70s

[@syddlinden8966]

I never understood this either. As a goth i always just saw it as edgies not understanding you can do edgy goth looks with nice boots and lapels or whatever without the fascism. Like you can do rich-goth without idolizing the fucking sith run galactic empire.

[@MrHodoAstartes]

2:30 See Japanese girlband Atarashii Gakko! whose members wear armbands that are indicating membership in the student council.

[@OscarLangleySoryu]

Also, Hugo Boss is just a bragging right. It's unusual. I'm not personally impressed by it, I'm just saying it's common sense that a lot of people get a buzz from a designer's name, period.

[@riccardomallardo7779]

1:00 the vatican swiss guards uniforms are not contemporary, they were designed by Michelangelo 500 years ago

[@verbatim7508]

Finally someone says it.

[@tevenpowell8023]

I think everyone is overlooking the emacculate drip of The Buckingham Palace Guards. Cannot argue with that ICONIC look. They reached perfection 200 years ago, and are still waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.

[@agilagilsen8714]

Vaush has a good point. But most in so far as the fact that the nazi uniforms weren’t uniquely stylish. I think a big problem here is that they are shown a lot more, especially through things like Indiana Jones and other films. While many other contemporary military uniforms had nowhere near the same level of continuous exposure throughout popular culture. That said, military uniforms almost only look cool when they fit well. No matter which uniform you’re speaking of. Another issue is that (imo) the US service uniforms we mostly see to contrast the nazis in movies and such are far more utilitarian and nowhere near as fashionable. But even so they are super cool in their own right. Context matters, but in general I’m a big fan of downplaying the nazi hype, and it is mostly that, hype.

[@goop4923]

I think armbands have the potential to look really cool i wish nazi's didnt claim that one

[@xanadurising7978]

Recapitulation. The taking of the emotional association and reversing it to take power from it.

[@djangoensor7622]

I hate the use of them for the same reasons: the only reason anyone likes them is because people on the internet recreate them and make them out to be good, so those who dont look are just told they look cool and belive them: i dont blame them, its the facist people who post first. Im a big fan of the French uniforms (basicly from 1806-1916) and similar stuff. The modern stuff i dont like, the US marines look bad i think. good video.

[@ladymorwendaebrethil-feani4031]

6:43 this assault riffle is very modern. They have tatoos. This pic is contemporary.

[@thechief043]

I'm like, 2 minutes in and the only thing I'm taking away from this video is that you do not, in fact, have to give it to fascists that they were stylish. Also, the point about their uniforms not being special or unique is true. A lot of military uniforms from this time were of similar design/function. The name escapes me, but there's a German-speaking channel that actually examines uniforms of the US and German units fighting in the Hurtgen forest. They point out that German uniforms had considerably dropped in quality for most units, and that the US uniforms were also more functional in many aspects.

[@palmarium]

This is a funny segment to post on KZbin

[@peterwindhorst5775]

420. hell we can't even have our own modern day military having well-fitting uniform. my sister's dress uniform did not even fit - they just took one look at her height and said "here'. the only way the jacket would have fit her was if se suddenly lost 30 pounds - as for the skirt - no way that is going around her waist.

[@nevvawinter7331]

People like the Hugh-go Boss outfit because the people wearing it look like Bison from Street Fighter

[@nevvawinter7331]

Also, apparently Mussolini invented Zordon.

[@B.B.Digital_Forest]

I think the Carabinieri and Gendarme uniforms look better. It's mostly because they have better hats.

[@jeremyfischer7856]

The Italian fascist building looks so cursed. It's like a classical-style apartment building after it's been infected by Sinistar.

[@MisterRorschach90]

It’s a fact that the Nazis paid very close attention to their uniforms and as a result they did in fact look very sharp. However I hate when people talk about this and act like every other country didn’t also look sharp at this time. People just cared about the uniform more. And I personally love those jodhpurs that American and European soldiers wore back in the day. Though that was very early.

[@Purplesquigglystripe]

I agree, so overrated. Basically any wwII wool or shearling greatcoat looks amazing