George Will said in the 1990s, high airline travel prices used to mean only upper and upper middle class people or business and professional people flew. Now “the lower orders can afford tickets” and this means they don’t dress up or act in a civil manner.
Just watched the JFK time travel movie by Stephen King called 11.22.63 and the firm advice to the young man was “in the 1960’s a grown man wore a suit and a hat.”
I noticed even in Three Stooges movies the men all wore suits all over the place, even shabby ones if they were out of work. And men in bread lines usually wore them.
The Big Lebowski: “How are you going to go out and look for a job today dressed like that?”
My uncle was a poor farmer. When his day was done, he’d shower and then put on a shirt and tie.
Men in 19th and tern of 20th century in England farmed in suits
I crossed the Atlantic on my way to Europe, Middle East, or Africa every 28 days for work in the oilfields until 1983 when the oilfield work went down the tubes. We were making the big bucks. I never saw fights and unruly passengers in the terminals or on the aircraft. We were polite to the crew and they were to us. We were polite even if we drank to much. We knew they would cut us off if we were unruly.