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Loos uses this idea of a cultural evolution in his writing about architecture, arts and crafts, and clothing to help illustrate Austria's position in the world. Many of his articles addressed different topics but contained similar critiques of the Viennese bourgeois. In 1898 Loos wrote two articles that were very similar in their critiques of Viennese culture. The first, published in July of 1898, was "Potemkin City" (discussed in the previous chapter), in which he critiques the architecture of the Ringstrasse. Like a pauper in fine clothing, Loos considered Vienna to be hiding its true identity under the "clothing" of historicist architectural styles. Although Loos is famous for his critiques of the architecture and arts of Vienna, some of his cultural and social critiques offer insight into his architecture. Only recently have authors such as Patrizia McBride and Janet Stewart begun to explore the closely intertwined nature of Loos's writings on fashion and architecture. In September of 1898, only two months after publishing "Potemkin City," Loos wrote a similar article, but instead of discussing architecture he was writing about underwear. Throughout the article Loos makes a very similar critique of the Viennese bourgeois clothing as he had of the architecture of the Ringstrasse.