Posted on 07/25/2014 11:06:44 AM PDT by billhilly
Appearances matter. All of our lives we were told that by our mothers, school teachers, employers and etiquette books.
If that is ‘dressed up” I would hate to see them the rest of the time.
The American Cultural Uniform: One dark T-shirt with smarmy, sexually oriented and/or idiotic messaging; one pair blue jeans, tattered by design; one baseball-style hat to help round off the stupid Larry-the-cable-guy look. Yeah! As I traveled back to the USA from overseas destination, the closer I got, I came in proximity of more and more of our citizens proudly donning the “uniform,” thinking they were unique and exceptional. They are/were just clones of the arrogant, ill mannered dregs that have become the bulk of a once great citizenry.
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About 15 years ago it was matching sweats with a design or picture on the chest, running shoes and water bottle. All the adults looked like toddlers.
Why. I am not going to functions. I am home with my children. When I go to Mass, a wedding, funerals and functions. I wear a pair of pants, shirt and tie.
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Put a nice blazer with it and you will class it up 1000% and you will hide your weapon effectively.
I remember Satuday outfits.
Summer outfits that consisted of a short sleeved buttoned shirt and matching shorts.
A matching wraparound skirt and triangle kerchief was included so one could stop at church for Confession on busy Saturdays.
No. I don’t like blazers either. I really don’t give a good GD about impressing anybody anymore. If they don’t want me there don’t invite me. I would probably like to be at home anyway.
Class has been lost by many the look at me bunch are near useless to anyone.
Slackers and stoners united and never grew up but breed any way you can’t cure stupidity.
Agree slobs are to lazy even dress right.
The term the good old days is true.
My wife and I always dress up when we go out to eat. It's not an everyday occurrence so we treat is as a special occasion.
I too have been to Mass where the people are dressed in tee-shirts and cutoffs. I am thankful they are there, but really? They want to present themselves in front of our Lord as if they were going to clean out the garage?
My pet peeve is seeing men wearing hats at the table at restaurants. When did this become acceptable? Good grief!
The movie “Idiocracy” was a documentary.
That is very true. It is really up to the women to dictate the dress codes for men.
All the time I see a woman impeccably dressed for a night out - must have taken her hours to prepare - and she's with some guy in dirty jeans, work boots, a Jack Daniels ball-cap and an old Lynyrd Skynyrd T-shirt.
But they say women dress for other women and that they don't really care at all how the men are dressed. So if that is the case, why make the effort?
Isn’t she dead now?
A hundred years ago, a tuxedo was seen as a daringly casual alternative to the proper morning coat for day wear and white tie and tails for evening. What we call a suit now used to be called a lounge suit.
Come to find out, prior to that era, most people only owned a couple suits of clothing. And they called it a "suit of clothing" because suits was all they ever wore. All his adult life, my father never once wore a pair of shorts or went in public without at least a collared shirt and tie. Anything less was considered "juvenile" or effeminate.
Not sure I want to go back to those standards but I'll settle for the "business casual" look.
Also note there are NO women or kids either. This picture says a lot about not only attire, but also a lot about the family.
Class is a wonderful thing.
In one of my American history books there is a picture of Calvin Coolidge returning from a fishing trip with his fishing rod and a stringer of fish in hand while wearing a suit and tie. Coolidge understood it was important to look presidential even when he was out having fun.
Love your picture and comment. You say “it’s how they recognize each other.” An instant thought is, smell must be involved as well.
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