The Hohenzollern rulers of Prussia and then Germany are their descendants. He was known as the Great Elector or Große Kurfürst. Armor was already obsolete, but it was a status symbol like an executive jet is today.
An early Hohenzollern portrait shows Louise Henriette of Nassau wearing a white dress with a jeweled hemline and sleeves joined to bodice by clasps.
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