It would seem wrong to wear pants to church - I never have (well maybe at Sunday evening or other church shindigs, but not to worship service).<<<
My feelings exactly.
On Orchid breeding, from what I can tell, once they started developing the cloning of orchids in the 1970’s, that is where they are stuck.
I ordered catalogs a few years ago and they were selling the same varieties, as we had in the 50’s and 60’s.
Then we were taught to look at a new seedling and see its line of breeding, LOL, some I still can remember.
You ordered a seedling list, to see who had bred what to what and what they expected.
Orchid seed is like face powder, a million seeds can be in a pod, and they are grown on agar in a flask.
Maybe one seedling in a thousand grown to flowering, some 5 years later, or even longer, would be worthy of being shown and granted its own plant name, which was used only for pieces of that plant.
like so many things, progress killed its continued growth.
There are over 25,000 different orchid genera, or basic types, as in Vanilla or Cymbidium, etc.
Dressing was another little project that I had to learn for Orchid Society, as I did have church clothes, a few and cocktail dresses, then I was married to a musician and went to the gigs with him. And LOL, I still think cocktail dresses are prettier than the work day clothes.
Yes, all outfits were better designed in the old days, and I have boxes of dress patterns from then that will prove it.
Yes. One day I was working from home and turned on the Documentary Channel, and they were talking about a dress manufacturer named Nell Donnelly, and the outstanding clothing she made in her plant in Kansas City. Her dresses were exceedingly well made. Wouldn’t you know it, she sold the company to Sears in the 1970s and they promptly ran it into the ground.
I realize how different our grandparents were from us. I would hate to have them exposed to the insanity of our world today. Imagine trying to explain justifying gay marriage to my devout grandmother who never missed church unless she was at death’s door.
I am thankful for my family and friends and fellow FReepers who appreciate this country, our history and our freedom. Pray that we survive all the attacks coming at us from all directions. Amen!