What causes an ordinary day to day outfit to change into an nth era costume? Why doesn’t suit affected by it?

by borntocabal
Georgy_K_Zhukov

To be honest, I'm not sure if this is what you're getting at by "nth era", but if I am reading this correctly, I think these previous answers about folk costumes would be relevant. This thread from both /u/chocolatepot and /u/gingerkid1234 and this one from /u/commiespaceinvader