Men Wearing Make-up And Jewelry
Cultural norms are different everywhere, but they are also different in time; change comes from the actions of those within the culture. 30 years ago it was less common for men in the Western countries to wear makeup, now many more do. This situation only arose because men started to use makeup more , despite it being against standard norms, and now it has become the new norm. In the practice you are describing, of sticking to the standard norms, it would have been disliked for Muslim men to do some thing XYZ in the past because it was not the norm then, but it would be permissible now. Or vice versa, where something permissible in the past becomes impermissible now. Sticking to this idea of standard norms seems to condemn Muslims to playing catch-up with the rest of the world, where they can’t experiment with or expand cultural norms, they must simply follow behind them. This does not seem like a logical situation.