From an at some point to be finished piece on sexuality, class, clothes and architecture

‘The strength, health and joy of aristocrats in other times strike our grocer-types as lacking thenecessary degree of refinement. That revolution of consciousness belatedly arriving after having too long burdened society, will one day affect even our dress. Women have already taken the lead. Their styles and fashions are bold, sensitive, expressive. Just look at the young girls of 1942. Their hair styles reflect a healthy and optimistic outlook. They go forth crowned with gold or ebony. But in the reign of Louis XIV or during the Renaissance, you boys are the ones who would be radiant as archangels with hair like theirs, and strong as Mars and handsome as Apollo. But the women have stolen your thunder!’
Le Corbusier, Talks with Students