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Are we dressing to the lowest common denominator?
1819 News ^ | October 8, 2025 | Annie Holmquist

Posted on 12/01/2025 6:13:57 AM PST by WhiteHatBobby0701

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To: WhiteHatBobby0701; All

People have lost all sense of propriety. It’s a lack of respect to be inappropriately dressed say, at a funeral, a church, a visit to someone’s home, etc.

Recently I went to a funeral and people were there who looked like they just left the beach.

It’s what Jordan Petersen called ‘Idiot Casual’


21 posted on 12/01/2025 7:02:03 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Dress, behavior and all the rest, you can always count on people to live down to your lowest expectations.

Every time I go to Wally World, it takes all the restraint I can muster not to walk up to rank strangers and ask them, “Who told you it was fitting to leave the house dressed like that?”


22 posted on 12/01/2025 7:03:42 AM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: T.B. Yoits
From the article: In other words, if we want to float through life as a nobody, then we should absolutely continue wearing our jeans, sweatshirts, and sneakers to all occasions – church, work, and special events.

Sick.

So if we want to "be somebody", we should judge ourselves and others by the clothing we wear. It's all flash, no substance.

The better you dress, the "better" the person you are.




23 posted on 12/01/2025 7:03:52 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

1. Maybe we should be glad they’re going to church at all.

2. The 6 or so years ago I shopped for a “decent” new suit and they wanted $600. I could probably get a cheaper suit, but my old ones will do for now.


24 posted on 12/01/2025 7:04:24 AM PST by KrisKrinkle (c)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

“Even the ladies, she noticed, were wearing skirts and dresses instead of pants”

I never wear pants into church. And that includes when I’m there alone practicing organ, etc. I hate to see it, but it’s so common now 🫤


25 posted on 12/01/2025 7:06:47 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

My old boss’s view was a fit guy in clean kakis and a golf shirt looked better than an obese guy in a jacket and tie. He had a point.


26 posted on 12/01/2025 7:07:49 AM PST by alternatives?
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
People come into church as if they just came in from plowing the field.

Maybe they did. Spend some time in a working town or city. Watch the working men in particular come in to church right from work, especially the evening vigils. Watch the working men come into church on their lunch break.

Celebrate them being there and stop judging them for what they wear.

God chose Joseph, a carpenter, and Christ chose several fishermen to be His Apostles.

27 posted on 12/01/2025 7:08:59 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: SMARTY

The wife and I watch a fair amount of Court TV.

It’s amazing what atire the courts now allow in the courtroom.

I’ve seen people on the witness stand wearing cloths I would be embarrassed to wear anywhere in public.

Been called for jury duty 4 times and the summons is always very clear on potential juror attire.

Every single time, half the jury pool shows up looking like they’re just coming from Walmart......and don’t get me started on Gen Zers wearing pajamas and House shoes......friggin’ lazy. SMH


28 posted on 12/01/2025 7:10:30 AM PST by V_TWIN (RIP Charlie Kirk)
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To: T.B. Yoits
1 Samuel 16:7
And the Lord said to Samuel: Look not on his countenance, nor on the height of his stature: because I have rejected him, nor do I judge according to the look of man: for man seeth those things that appear, but the Lord beholdeth the heart.
29 posted on 12/01/2025 7:15:06 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

At Microsoft for business roles, there is expected interview attire:

Levi’s, a pressed shirt and Sport Coat.

Right now, I’m at SEA on a trip to AUS, wearing 501Ts, a plaid Orvis shirt in fall colors, a Filson field coat lined in heavy wool buffalo plaid, and fresh Redwing Loggers. All outdoorsman wear, but fresh, clean, expensive and likely to last decades. In Seattle, I’m the best dressed guy at the airport.


30 posted on 12/01/2025 7:16:23 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Communism and islam: failed in every country in modern history.)
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To: V_TWIN
It’s amazing what attire the courts now allow in the courtroom. I’ve seen people on the witness stand wearing cloths I would be embarrassed to wear anywhere in public.

The defendant is entitled to a jury of his peers, not your peers.

31 posted on 12/01/2025 7:17:23 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: mewzilla

Preach it sister!


32 posted on 12/01/2025 7:17:36 AM PST by Komarlady (Where have all the spork weasels gone?)
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To: T.B. Yoits

The largest falsehoods you were ever told were from a man in a suit.


33 posted on 12/01/2025 7:18:44 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Uncle Miltie

Moscot Lemtosh eyeglasses, a neatly trimmed beard and fresh haircut.

I’m MILF bait…


34 posted on 12/01/2025 7:19:42 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Communism and islam: failed in every country in modern history.)
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To: T.B. Yoits

You still butthurt about dressing like a bum?


35 posted on 12/01/2025 7:20:48 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: Sirius Lee
You still butthurt about dressing like a bum?

Ha ha

They say you can't polish a turd, but as we learned in the military, you can roll it in glitter.

36 posted on 12/01/2025 7:30:52 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

Glitter away you crazy child.


37 posted on 12/01/2025 7:32:28 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Well i don’t know about any of that, but I just hope we don’t consider braless tops in the summertime a form of lowest common denominator...

...that would be a shame.. .


38 posted on 12/01/2025 7:33:52 AM PST by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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To: Sirius Lee
You're an amateur until you have your medals spilling out of your crotch.



39 posted on 12/01/2025 7:34:15 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

Wow. That’s impressive. 😉


40 posted on 12/01/2025 7:38:36 AM PST by stevio (Fight until you die!)
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