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the moment clothing, ideas, or people stop apologizing for existing near each other.
means a state where two things match well enough to function as one, whether that's a jacket, a plan, or a personality.
from from old norse fitja, to knit together, by the 1300s it meant suited or appropriate, and by the 1500s english added the fit of a seizure, same root idea of something suddenly locking into place, good or bad.
tailors inventedbespoke fitting rooms existed before mirrors were common
darwin's versionsurvival of the fittest means best fit, not strongest
gym slanggot fit is 20th century, borrowed from clothing sense
for instance
savile row suit — london tailors have hand-fitted suits since the 1800s
darwinian fitness — 1859, on the origin of species reframes survival as compatibility
cinderella's slipper — the fairy tale where fit literally decides the plot