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Hearing someone disapprove of socks and sandals, or wearing pyjamas outdoors may be the fastest way to identify an idiot. The recategorization happens instantly, and they find themselves unknowingly in the company of every Victorian man who might have chided someone for not wearing a wig, or powdering their face enough.
Look at you, you look positively healthy! Can't you show a little respect, and at least pretend to be ill? Too much effort to apply a little powder? Is that it? And you're just going to wander around with your black hair showing, is that it?
They heard it was proper to imitate an anaemic person with long, curly hair, parroted it, then chided everyone else for not putting in the effort. I can understand a bit of doing-the-done-thing, but the additional step, of trying to construct arguments about how natural, correct, and necessary the thing is - this seals the guarantee that someone has nothing but other people's thoughts lodged in their head.