I love a good bifurcation. I love someone who has the intellectual confidence to divide the world in two. Bosh. This half of the world and this half.
This is a fantastic example, from Worn by Sofi Thanhauser.
"Clothing historian Cecil Saint-Laurent argued that there are two types of clothing: the draped and the sewn. Laurent saw these two types as symbolic of, respectively, Athenian freedom and Spartan fascism, and came down decisively on the side of draped garments. In this position he was preceded by Hegel, who in 1820 declared the aesthetic superiority of draped Athenian garments to sewn German ones:
'Our modern clothing is wholly inartistic: this is because what we really see in it … is not the fine, free, and living contours of the body in their delicate and flowing development, but stretched out sacks with stiff folds … something cut, sewn together over here, folded over there. Elsewhere fixed, and, in short, purely unfree forms."'