[Lera]

These songs mention how people dressed during the Depression.

Of course everyone knows that even today the entire country dresses like in Hollywood and on Broadway. Everyone knows too that the entire country today lives just like Wall street bankers ./s

https://www.google.com/search?q=pictures+of+the+great+depression&client=firefox-a&hs=MDk&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=RA6xUYCDN8qpqgG4k4GgAQ&ved=0CC0QsAQ&biw=1445&bih=669

You should take a look at how some people in the country really lived and dressed at that time . It wasn't just a few considering it was also the time of the dust bowl.

[Fiji Hill]

Of course everyone knows that even today the entire country dresses like in Hollywood and on Broadway. Everyone knows too that the entire country today lives just like Wall street bankers ./s

1. The entire country DOES try to dress like they do in the movies and on Broadway, which have been setting fashion trends for decades.
2. In the songs that I posted, the struggling couple in the Ray Noble tune and the college student on a tight budget in the Gene Kardos opus were, indeed, living like Wall Street bankers--that is, the bankers who put all of their money in the stock market in the 1920's.

[Fiji Hill]

You should take a look at how some people in the country really lived and dressed at that time . It wasn't just a few considering it was also the time of the dust bowl.

Indeed, it wasn't fun living in the Dust Bowl, where the fashion-conscious had to take their zoot suits to the dry cleaners frequently to clean out the dust.

Dust--The Sons of the Pioneers (with Roy Rogers) (1938)

Dusty Skies--Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys (1941)

A Zoot Suit--The Andrews Sisters (1942)