AH Challenge: Keep these 18th century elements of male attire fashionable

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Eighteenth century male fashion involved wigs, makeup, garish colours, silk stockings, crotch-moulding breeches and high heels. Further, in order to be a real man you had to be good at dancing.

The challenge is to find a plausible way to retain as many of these items as possible in fashion down to the present day, though they don't need to remain identical to what they were under George II. Overall the idea is to keep men's fashion colourful and overstated, in a way that might be considered feminine by 21st century OTL standards (though it definitely wasn't considered so back in the 18th century).
 
A strong revival of Glam-Rock fashions would bring most of those back.

For example, see David Bowie:

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Cheers,
Nigel.
 
certain subvarients of perky emo's and perky goths can end up looking more like this than what media precieves as emo/goth clothing culture
 
Eighteenth century male fashion involved wigs, makeup, garish colours, silk stockings, crotch-moulding breeches and high heels. Further, in order to be a real man you had to be good at dancing.

The challenge is to find a plausible way to retain as many of these items as possible in fashion down to the present day, though they don't need to remain identical to what they were under George II. Overall the idea is to keep men's fashion colourful and overstated, in a way that might be considered feminine by 21st century OTL standards (though it definitely wasn't considered so back in the 18th century).

1) Get rid of Beau Brummel and his influence on Prinny.
2) hmmm.... Not sure beyond that, but 1 is a good start.
 
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