Not only have I seen those old movies ( thanks to YouTube ), but am old enough to remember when ALL people dressed as well as they could, in the proper attire for what they were doing, and know exactly when that all began to change.
Also, people dressed differently, in "modern times", depending on their ages. Now, many little girls are either dressed like filed hands, or two bit hookers. And many little boys look as though they are about to go to prison/in a perp line-up.
Oh there are exceptions, there always are, to all things; however, todays "exceptions" should be the RULE and vice-a-versa!
“...and know exactly when that all began to change.”
Forgive me. It has been changing from the beginning.
“Looseness” in dress, in attitude, in culture, is a frog in heating pot phenomena.
I’ve read accounts of despair against the leaflets that were nailed to telephone poles. That advertised the latest crimes, the latest ‘horrors’, the latest titillating shows to attend (picture how news was spread at the turn of the {last} century). (Advertising works, or they wouldn’t do it).
We have been going down this degraded, rumbled road for a long long time my FRiend.
To know “exactly”....would be when Eve took that bite.